SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Risk Management, Parental Investment
Document Summary
October,17,2013: recap : lombroso and the born criminal, policy implications, lombroso"s legacy: contemporary biosoical theories, biosocial theories of crime causation, evolutionary psychology, recap: lombroso and the born criminal born criminals have inherited criminal traits. Determined by factors beyond a persons control: richard dugdale (1975) the jukes: Fornication is the backbone of their habits, flanked on one side by pauperism, on the other by crime. The secondary features are prostitution, with its complement of bastardy; exhaustion, with its complement intemperance and its resultant unbalanced minds . Lombroso and the born criminal inherited biological traits are visibly manifested on the criminal"s body. Phrenology; analyze the bumps and indentation of the skull; would relate to the persons" intelligence or personality trait: born criminals suffer from atavistic anomalies (abnormalities) Darwinian evolution theory: criminal anthropology: scientific study. Weakness in lombroso"s conclusions: did not use a rigorous scientific method: no control group never compared his criminal theory with the population as a controlled group.
