CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Null Hypothesis, Reductionism, Nominalism
30 Mar 2019
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Individualistic theories of crime: sociological theories of crime. They allow us to feel that we know why something happened, and whether, or not under what conditions, it is likely to occur again. The principle is often involved to defend reductionism or nominalism: can the theory be falsified, only one of the things can be true (null hypothesis); If it cannot be falsified, then it"s a tautology - circular reasoning. Cesare lombroso (1835-1909) (looked at delinquent females as well: known as the father of criminology; Neanderthals): slippery slope because it means isolating a particular human trait as bad, until the 1980s, most criminological theories revolved around men. It doesn"t happen amongst humans and don"t strengthen the gene pool or cut off certain parts of it. 3: eugenic movement - strengthen to gene pool by eliminating the weaker ones - sterilised (chemically castrated) bad people so they can"t reproduce. It was state sanctioned, so it was legal to do it until 1960s.
