This positivist school disagreed with the classical school’s perspective of crime. Because everyone is distinct, their perceptions of good and bad differ as well; this is required to be a criterion for sanctions. The individual should be penalised, not the crime.The positive method entailed closely examining the aspects of perpetrators in order to receive insight into the issue of aggressive behaviour or conduct
Ferri certainly doesn’t agree with all of Lombroso’s assumptions, such as that several humans are born criminals and certain physical aspects, such as a person’s head structure or bone structure position, can predict criminal behaviour.
Ferri, on the other hand, used the inductive approach to develop scientific knowledge that would describe in detail the causes of criminal acts both in society and among individuals.