CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Anthropological Criminology, Atavism
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The development of intelligence testing: practice of intelligence testing began in france 1904, alfred binet developed a way to differentiate between intellectually normal and intellectually inferior school children, developed binet scale. New approach to measure ability and level. Genetics and criminality: xyy chromosome discovered, predisposed to criminal activity due to abnormal height and mental structures. Psychological positivism: psychological positivism had different historical origins and a different orientation toward the offender and criminal activity. In this perspective, crime was seen as the result of externally caused biological problems or internal psychological factors that were treatable: criminal was made, not born. Bisocial explanations (kind of both biological and psych positivism: best explanation is provided by hans eysenck (1984, he argued that behaviour could be explained by a combination of psychological and environmental influences. This refers to way in which genetic inheritance can affect one"s ability to be conditioned: the differential quality of conditioning.
