CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Medical Model, Human Nature, Begging The Question
23 Jan 2017
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Wednesday november 18, 2015 and friday november 20, 2015. Intellectual: general theory of evolution darwin. Idea of evolution and stages in human development: rise of science of psychology, rise in scientific interest. Rise of industrial revolution: proletariat, efor(cid:373)s i(cid:374)itiated (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)itaria(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:271)ut . Reformers felt bad for the poor, the troubled youth, girls who we pregnant before marriage, etc. Society progressing forward science determine means of overcoming social problems and ills. Focus on biological factors that predispose individuals to criminality: probability that individual engage in certain types of behaviour not prediction. Search for biological and psychological characteristics which differentiate the criminal from the non-criminal. Use of expert knowledge and classification and categorization. High degree of correspondence between the physical appearances of the body and the temperament of the mind. William sheldon (1940s: presented individual case histories of 200 young males housed in boston between 1939-1949 and compare them to a nondelinquent college male, sheldon(cid:859)s typology.
