SOC 2700 Midterm: Midterm 2 Notes

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Psychological trait theories convicts intelligence: imitation spreads from the top down; young imitate older. 2nd branch of trait theory focuses on the mental aspects of crime. Association among intelligence, personality, learning and criminal behaviour. There is a relationship between crime and a condition that he called defective. Believed criminal behaviour as inherited and could be controlled by regulating the reproduction of families that exhibit such traits as: epilepsy, insanity, defective social instincts. Charles goring used his biometric method to study characteristics of 3,000 english. Wasn"t a difference in physical characteristics between criminals and non-criminals. Gabriel tarde believed people learn from one another through a process of imitation: individuals in intimate contact tend to imitate one another"s behaviour. Social learning theory believe that criminality can be influenced by both. Trade is similar to those of modern followers of social learning theory.

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