CRM 1300 Lecture 7: CRM 1300 - Lecture 7
8 Mar 2017
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Lecture 7: biological and psychological perspectives on criminology. We are talking about a correlation between individual characteristics and a socially defined phenomenon. Much of this domain of research is thereby concerned with identifying reliable subgroups of people defined as criminal. Take a crime (assault): and try to identify characteristics of assaulters that is different from everyone else? (brain, etc) Biological theories are for the most part individualistic (micro focused) and assume a fundamentally consensual model of society. If you say that crime is mostly caused by abnormalities in the individual, it isn"t society, it"s the individual. Longitudinal follow one group of test subjects over a long period of time. Cross-sectional multiple snapshots with different subjects at the same time (ex: teens in vancouver, ottawa, toronto, etc) If you have brain damage would lead to certain forms of behaviour. Certain rare forms of epilepsy have been associated with aggressive behaviour - where there is extensive brain damage.
