CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feminist School Of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Uniform Crime Reports
12 Jun 2017
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Discipline of psychology is composed of several perspectives, including psychoanalysis, behaviourism, social cognitivism (or social learning), and developmental psychology (p. 169) Should not consider them as a single, unified discipline. Various branches of psychological theory are of relevance to criminology, including those that examine individual differences in personality traits, such as aggression and impulsivity, and those that examine conditioning, social learning, and psychological development. 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 (p. 170) Two quite different outcomes children fathered with quaker wife were normal ; children fathered with barmaid wife were feeble-minded, and prone to criminality. Led goddard to argue that feeblemindedness was inherited, and that feeble-mindedness (low. In 1977, hirschi and hindelang published a study entitled intelligence and delinquency: a. Reported on six (then recent) studies on relationship between iq and delinquency.
