CRM 1301 Lecture 5: BIOLOGICAL POSITIVISM
10 Mar 2017
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March 10, 2015: robert pickton vs. paul bernardo, colonel russell williams and luca magnotta. Coldblooded killers: they dehumanize them by calling them coldblooded killers, more like an animal then a human being, humans are warm-blooded and have emotions. Craniometry: believed that a persons skull perfectly conformed to their brain structure, size of brain determines whether you"re inferior or superior, larger skull = larger brain, superior, small skull = smaller brain, inferior. Phrenology: the science known as reading bumps, certain parts of our brain control certain types of our personality, more you use of that brain, the larger that part would be, secretiveness or argument sections of the brain. 3 regions of the brain: intellectual faculties, moral sentiments, lower function, deemed to be the largest in criminals. Cesare lombroso: provided medical services in army and prison, compared physical characteristics of individuals.
