ECO320Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Development, Psychoticism, Xyy Syndrome
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Violent crimes: summarize why people are born criminals + critical. Biological theory: criminals were not produced by society"s flaws, but that they were genetic misfits who were born to break the rules. Some people are born criminal or inherit a predisposition to crime which may become manifest when the individual is exposed to certain triggering environments. Dr. goring found a high correlation between criminality and low intelligence, so he concluded that crime was transmitted genetically through mental inferiority, could be altered by social factors such as education. Hooton, concluded that criminals represent an aggregate of sociologically and biologically inferior individuals. William sheldon related particular body type to particular kinds of criminal behaviour. He found that the muscular mesomorphs were the type that were most likely to become involved in delinquent or criminal behaviour: criticism : Lombroso"s comparison groups were chosen unsystematically and his statistical techniques were crude.
