CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Environment, History Of Mental Disorders, Mental Health

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

Document Summary

Says that there is no disinct criminal type* But criminals = defecive: physically, mentally, morally. 1: family new jersey (one paricular family, traced back to a illegiimate child and a feebleminded inmate) Inmates = feeblemindedness: family descendants , illegiimate, alcoholics, criminals. Problemaic study tampering with data (may have exaggerated data) Implicaions of mental hygiene movement: coninement, sterilizaion, professionalizaion. Many people lost their lives through the eugenics movement. Phrenology: an exploraion of the physically of the human body. Brain organ of the mind: exterior (skull) / interior (brain, faculies = overdeveloped // underdeveloped (enfeebled, overdeveloped = protrusions in skull. Mental illness : disease, diferent behavior, potenially dangerous. 5) treatment = not negaive involuntary coninement = jusiied implicaions = moral judgements via scieniic language (not value neutral) Middle ages = lunaics -> burned / feared possessed by the devil coninement = custodial (not treatment) ineligibility. = mental illness birth of medical model. Believed in therapeuic potenial of asylum (removal of chains)