SOC 2700 Lecture : Psychology and Crime.docx
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Id, ego, and superego y freud (1856-1939) y y malfunctioning ego or superego leads to crime y problem of the unconscious: personality studies y colours, disc, mmpi, and cpi y y anti-social personality disorder. Importance of the dsm: the problem of impulsivity and crime y people act without forethought y wilson and herrnstein: criminals are distinct, eugenics (well-born) Alfred binet and the intent of iq. Goddard and iq studies (us soldiers; kallikak family) Was feeblemindedness hereditary: low iq can be inherited, low iq predicts criminal behaviour, low iq often creates problems like poverty, mental illness. Problems with goddard: tests of general and practical knowledge: would normally find on an iq test spatial ability, verbal skills. Charles davenport: crime as predestined: examples of legislation: 1928 alberta sexual sterilization act (canada: sterilize young person with low iq before puberty, sometimes without consent, medical solution legally advocated by gov t, quickly decide who is eligible for sterilization, children were interviewed,