CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Learning Disability, Blood Sugar, Insomnia
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Criminality is explained by individual differences: both biological and psychological, may be genetic, neurological, or chemical. Used to explain why people respond differently to similar situations: e. g. , why some become chronic offenders. Poses the question why do people who live in the same environment become criminals or not: based on body blueprint born with bad blood. Raffaele garofalo (1852 1934: criminals have higher pain threshold (e. g. , tattooing). Richard dugdale (1841 1883: looked at family tree over man generations, studied 150-year history of degenerate families , claimed that criminality is inherited. Tendency to criminality is determined by body type: ectomorph. Accounts for racism, sexism, nepotism, double standard of sexuality. Focus on interaction between biological predispositions and environmental. Triggers : assume they have the predisposition and need the environmental trigger in order to exhibit certain behaviour. Basic tenet: people are born with different genetic traits. (we are not all born equal. , differs from sociological criminologists who believe in equipotentiality.
