CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Kallikak Family, Willie Bosket, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Section iv - modern biosocial perspectives of criminal behaviour. Examine interaction between physiology (ie. functioning) and environment: nature v. nurture. Early emphasis on biological aspects of offending: family studies, twin studies, adoption studies. Sought to explore the relationship between families and criminality. Numerous studies: 1900"s dugdale the juke family, 1900"s goddard the kallikak family, 1990"s the bosket family. Why focus on family: early criminological theories emphasized that family values were critical in preventing criminal behaviour, later, positivist scholars such as henry goddard suggested the. Feeblemindedness" explained the development of crime and delinquency. Goddard and others argued that feeblemindedness" was hereditary. This was good for eugenics, so it couldn"t be passed on. Martin kallikak had children with 2 women, his wife, a quaker woman, and a tryst with a. The linage of kallikak and his wife was quite affluent. Those born to the bar-maid were feebleminded and had a criminogenic lifestyle.