SOCIOL 2CC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anthropological Criminology, Atavism, Psychosurgery
29 Jan 2020
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While the state is in search of solution to crime. Diverted attention from underlying deficiencies in the social, economic and political institutions. Study of faculties of the mind from conformation of the skull. Crimes like theft and murder result from neglect and abuse of the organs of combativeness, destructiveness and secretiveness. Atavistic reversal - primitive form of a man. Small ears, receding chins, wooly hair etc. were more prevalent in criminals. Criminal behavior is a direct result of inherited biological inferiority. Particular crimes are caused by particular types of inferiority , manifested by different patterns of different anatomical traits. Different racial stocks and different national groupings commit characteristic patterns of offenses. Sheldon believed that criminality had to do with body structure. Delinquency defined was disappointingness - the criteria for which are not objectively delineated. Population was labelled more or less delinquent which is unequally defined d. Population was labelled more or less delinquent which is unequally defined.
