CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Single Transverse Palmar Crease, Travis Hirschi, Intelligence Quotient
21 Nov 2013
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These perspectives focused on that certain individuals/groups tend to offend more than others: eugenics inferior individuals should be controlled or eliminated, control of reproduction. Early to mid 1800s establish a framework to distinguish superior and inferior individuals: craniometry brain & skull size = superiority/inferiority. Thought size of skull = size of brain. Measure volume of brain, circumferences of skull, pour seeds/buckshot/ball bearings into skulls to measure volume. Front portion of brain larger = superior; back portion of brain large = inferior. Craniometrists changed belief and said convoluted or complex structure of brain + fissures and gyrus = superior brain. Now = large brain = score higher on intelligence tests: phrenology determine human dispositions based on distinctions. Assumed size of skull = size of brain. Bump or abnormality of skull = abnormality of brain. Certain parts of brain is responsible to certain tasks. Phrenology = area above left ear destructiveness. Now = area above left ear (left temporal) trauma.
