CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Eugenics, Microcurrent Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulator, Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Within the 700 members of family, around 200 were deviants. Categorize individuals based on their intellect in order to help them. Groups were being targeted more than others (juvenile delinquents) They were being labeled and called morons and such. He concluded there were no criminal types and lombroso = subjective. But criminals = defective: physically, mentally, morally. Research on prisoners: intelligence tests prisons, family new jersey. Findings: inmates = feebleminded, family descendants = He doctored the photos to make them seem more extreme. Mental hygiene movement - psychiatric explanations of crime. Justification for (cid:498)mental (ygiene(cid:499) movement: phrenology, exploration of physicality of human behaviour, brain = organ of the mind. Brain plays a significant role: examined mostly inmates and categorized, exterior (skull)/interior (brain, mind = faculties & function, faculties = shape of skull. Lumps and bumps on skull: faculties = overdeveloped/underdeveloped (enfeebled, overdeveloped = protrusions in skull, disease = mental illness.