CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cesare Lombroso, Coronary Artery Disease, Social Philosophy
27 Nov 2020
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Biological risk factors and crime magic bullet approach to mental illness - using drugs to control" people that have a mental illness" classical theory. Theory of human behaviour ration calculus- p(pleasure) vs. [p(caught) + p(severity of punishment)] law should be: Criminaloid - motivated by passion or with unstable emotional makeup genes x environment = behaviour (nature vs. nurture) diathesis-stress model. Predispositions to certain things, it will stay hided until you are in the environment to trigger" these predispositions historically and now. Temperament - surplus or imbalance causes suffering in health/personality. Tryptophan and aggression (bjork, dougherty, moeller, & swann, 2000) phrenology. Relationship: size/shape of head and personality, ability, behaviours. Areas under-developed failed to create normal skull shape (concave) biological explanations. Neurochemical: how genes express themselves through the brains impact of lombrosian theory. Goring (1910) the english convict, 3000 prisoners and non-prisoners eugenics. Physical appearance from fetal alcohol syndrome physical attractiveness and crime.
