CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Anomie, Edwin Sutherland, Classical Conditioning
4 Apr 2013
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Crim 101 lec 4 jan 31st. Used scientific methods to explain criminal behavior. Behavior of criminals was pre-determined by their genes or evolutionary. Involved notion of determinism, as opposed to free will or rational choice . condition. Founder and most prominent member of the positive school. Interest in science, medicine and evolutionary theory led cesare lombroso in search of atavistic criminal a degenerate throw back on earlier forms of evolution. Subsequent positive school efforts focused on feeblemindedness, poor genes, and criminal body type: had to do with a problem with the brain, nor free will, there was a criminal gene. Dugdale had limited schooling, became assistant sculptor, tried running manufacturing business, had nervous breakdown, and became a sociologist. Dugdale observed young man (apparently feebleminded) on trial in court: questions if there was a criminal gene in the juke family. Dugdale went back through generations, found petty thieves (never convicted), a murderer (not convicted), another who broke deaf persons ear trumpet.
