CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Nature, Homicide, Social Order
18 May 2016
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Social context: shift in thinking during the 19th century. Science as a major tool of all scholars. Medical and physical science discovered an increasing number of way in which human beings were not self-determining. Citizens less concerned with politics and more concerned about social issues. Focus on tested and systemized experiences as opposed to pure speculation. Evolution: standard form of thinking at this time. The birth of anthropology as a field of study. Determinism: human behaviour was influenced by factors outside the control of individual. Positivism as a scientific method: biological, physiological and sociological. A physician in the military and in hospitals. He studied the physical differences among soldiers, the insane and the criminals. The insane criminal (those who suffer from mental disorders) The occasional criminal (the ones who aren"t really criminals, they don"t do serious crimes just sometimes do little crimes) The born criminal (heat of the moment criminals)
