CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bad Hindelang, Sigmund Freud, The Kallikak Family
22 Oct 2016
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Hormones: hormones (stored in glands) are part of our body chemistry, not out brain chemistry, hormones are released into the blood stream, and are circulated throughout the body, examples of hormones include insulin, cortisol, testosterone. The discipline of psychology: discipline of psychology is composed of several perspectives, should not consider them, various branches of psychological theory are of relevance. Intelligence and crime: early positivists argued that there was a connection between feeble-mindedness and criminality, one example would be henry goddard"s work on the kallikaks, Two families fathered by the same man (heidt, 2014: two quite different outcomes- children fathered with quaker wife were normal ; children fathered with barman wife were. Feeble-minded , and prone to criminality: led goddard to argue that feeblemindedness was inherited, and the feeblemindedness (low iq) contributed to criminality. Exam: in 1977, hirschi & hindelang published a study entitled:
