SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canine Tooth, Vladislav Delay, Atavism
4 Feb 2020
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Lombroso and the positivist school: born in verona, italy (1835, medical doctor, studied 3000 italian soldiers, father of criminology, difference in soldiers that can be traced back to italy. Charles goring: the english convict: a statistical study (1913, compared 3000 convicts to non-convicts. The physical and mental constitution of both criminal and law-abiding persons are identical. There is no such thing as an anthropological criminal type : lower intelligence levels than non-criminals, mental inferiority, issue with control group, non-criminals out in society could"ve been criminals as well just better at it and never caught. The core principles of biosocial theories: genetic make-up contributes significantly to human behaviour. Instinct influences behaviour: human drive to possess, control others, instinct inherited non learned dispositions that activate human behaviours, need to possess something = to steal/theft. Biosocial theories: neurological factors and crime: minimal brain dysfunction (mbg, impulse control, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (add, learning disorders, impulse, tumours, injury and disease.
