CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Craniometry, The Bell Curve, Carl Jung

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Week 8 etiological criminology: body & psyche. Criminal anthropology = the study of the criminal man; influence of lombroso. Positivist criminology = by using science, we can find predetermined criminality in the body. Model of natural science, natural foundation, measurement, objectivity. Assault on classical criminology: biological theories. Physiognomy: giovannattista della porta, de humana physicgnomonia (1586) Phrenology = a discourse on the mind; the size of the skull reflected the size of the organs inside. Johann gaspar spurzheim, the physiognomical system of drs. Lombroso"s criminal anthropology = born criminals , savages born in the wrong time; an evolutionary throwback. Elements of context: charles darwin, on the origin of species (1859), the descent of man (1871, anthropology of race and colonialism. Lombroso"s criminal man (1876) = study the criminal, not the crime": anthropometry, craniometry, born criminal, insane criminal, occasional (pseudo-criminal, criminaloid, habitual criminal, criminal of passion = not predisposition to crime, crime of passion, criminal women (1893)