SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Cesare Lombroso, Influence Line, Sigmund Freud
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Greeks had a supernatural explanation that madness was a possession caused by the gods justice emanated from zeus the supreme court judge to punish people supernatural explanations caused by the gods tempted people. Witchcraft was a result of an individual entering a pact with the devil thus obtaining supernatural powers for un-christian ends. England and europe everyone that practised witchcraft had to be punished get rid of the devil. English physical appearance would render them a witch mole. 1870 study on inmates of italian prisons and a post-modern of a famous bandit named. Recent biological explanations pre menstrual syndrome (pms) insufficient amounts of progesterone (hormone) causes psychological problems such as: depression irritability reduced concentration impaired judgement resulting in a loss of self-control linked to behavioural outcome. 1980 british trial courts guilty of manslaughter instead of murder on the grounds of severe pms no evidence that biology plays any role in deviant behaviour.
