CRM 3312 Lecture 14: Explaining Crime and Delinquency (Continued)
18 Mar 2016
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He met a feeble-minded barmaid > had a son > made a family of degenerates. Descendants were productive citizens: lawyers and doctors, they were not living in poverty or committing crimes. Feeble-mindedness is inherited and all criminals are feeble-minded (morons or idiots: passed on from generation to generation. Not all feeble-minded people are criminals, but all criminals were deemed feeble-minded. Feeble-minded persons cannot learn from their mistakes or control emotions > lack of intelligence > cannot control their emotions. Sterilization > iq test was to see who is smart and who is feeble-minded. Id: i want it now - most primitive, we are born with it, totally unconscious, biological and psychological drive (sex, survival, aggression), operates on the pleasure principle. Ego: i need to do a bit of planning before i get it - conscious, oriented towards the real world, operates on the reality principle, geared to problem-solving and delays gratification.
