SOC211H5 Chapter Notes -Medicalization, Federal War, Glass Ceiling
Document Summary
In earlier times, scholars of crime approached deviant behaviour as rooted in people"s biological abnormalities or predispositions. Tried to find links between incarcerated criminals and genetic deficiencies. Lombroso and his followers suggested that criminals were more like primitive human beings, resembling their ape-like ancestors. Viewed criminals as born and not made and therefore unresponsive to rehab and treatment. Body type theorists correlated criminality to somatypes : body builders thought to be related to certain personality characteristics or temperaments. In the 1930s, brain studies were popular which suggested that some people might cease their deviant ways if their brains were surgically altered. Dominant theory in sociology for the first half of the 20th century. Durkheim advanced their theory that society is a moral phenomenon believed that at its root, the morals (norms, values, and laws) that individuals are taught constrain their behaviour. These moral beliefs determine how people behave, what they want, and who they are.
