CRJU 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conduct Disorder, Mood Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
3 Oct 2016
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Focuses on identifying the criminogenic traits of offenders. Key to understanding crime is to study the criminal, not the crime. Nature of crime: based on consensus; crime is a deviation from normal behavior that is prohibited by law. Nature of offenders: different from non- criminals in being defective, break laws naturally and will break norms and laws in any society. Chronology of biological determinism (rise of the postiviest school) phrenology(sutyding shape of skull to determine criminal behavior). Cesare lombroso (1835-1909) father of criminology: physiognomy, identified born criminals by physiological type ( atavist ) (idea of darwinism) (nature) Scientific method: observation, hypothesis, test, interpretation, conclusions. Most empirical tests in inmates, orphans, mentally ill. Lange (1929) crime as destiny : mz twins concordance 77% (n=13 pairs, dz twins concordance 12% (n=17 pairs, brothers concordance 8% (n=214 pairs) Heredity plays a dominant role in producing crime (shows that nature plays a role)
