CRCJ 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Statistical Significance, Bipolar Disorder, Head Injury
2 Nov 2016
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Crcj1000 chapter 6, understanding crime in canada. Studying the shape and size of the skull to supposedly indicate mental abilities (this theory has been discredited) Term associated with lombroso and the positivist school. The notion that criminals are less evolved than other humans. Methods to improve populations by controlling breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. There are natural (biological) aspects to personality and also others developed through nurturing and experiences. It"s hard to study genetics because even in a large sample population everyone has been exposed to many different factors. A quantitative stats analysis of many similar experiments to test statistical significance. Heritability of violence: (heritability = being heritable by genes) The act of labelling someone as deviant. Criminal background in parents = more criminality in children. Adhd and other attention disorders can be traced to later criminal behaviour. Brain contains 2 major types of communication systems. Serotonin = plays role in depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder.
