CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Penis Envy, State Terrorism, Nonpartisanism
10 Oct 2017
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= difference: search for cause of human behaviour, method = biographic reconstruction, discover differences. Positivism as a method: natural science method, link theory to action, non-partisan, cumulation. Lombroso: constitutional model = biology of individual, criminal men = atavistic throwbacks (lower evolved, stigma = anomalies, criminals vs non-criminals, the born criminal (ears, chin, hair, nose, feet, lips, racist, sexist, classist, the female offender lombroso algometer. Biological positivism solutions: treatment rehabilitation, eugenics elimination, sterilization. 20th century biological positivism: gluecks (1934): women = feebleminded, pollak (1950s): women = penis envy. Science + state = crimes of the powerful: sterilization, prisoner experimentation in concentration camps high altitude and low temperatures tests, twins, etc. Purpose = dealth, aid war effort, advance science: non-therapeutic, non-consensual research, unimaginable torture. Assessment of biological positivism: focus in individual. Individual = too passive: subjective science, discriminatory. Intrusive: abuses of science, abuses by the state.
