CJ ST 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cesare Lombroso, Aryan Race, Biological Theory (Journal)
25 Sep 2018
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Criminals had distinctive physical signed which differentiated them from non-criminals (exact opposite of classical theory) He was a physician, his research was criticized for advocating social darwinism. People didn"t like him - he basically called criminals primitive and they hadn"t evolved correctly. He made inferences off facial features (rude) because there wasn"t much science yet to use genes. People also didn"t like him because his idea was linked to. Sterilization of the criminal population did have movements in europe and the us. Low resting heart rate and under-arousal in the involuntary functions of the nervous system. Low resting heart rate is the strongest biological correlate of antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. This is why certain people are undeterred by punishment or threat of punishment. Symptoms include low skin conductivity ((cid:364)don"t sweat it(cid:365)), low pulse in stressful conditions, low affect (emotion), acute and frequent boredom. Yet this group isn"t studied for this. Frontal lobes of the brain control executive functioning.
