CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Johann Spurzheim, Cesare Lombroso, Konrad Lorenz
17 Feb 2016
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A theory that maintains that the basic determinants of human behaviour, including criminality, are constitutionally or physiologically based and often inherited. Basic determinants of human behaviour, including criminal tendencies degree: constitutionally or genetically based to a considerable, may be passed on from generation to generation; that is, a. Observed gender and racial differences in rate and types of penchant (tendency) for crime may be inherited criminality may be at least partially the result of biological differences between the sexes and between racially distinct groups. Much of human conduct is fundamentally rooted in instinctive behavioural responses that are characteristic of biological organisms everywhere: territoriality and acquisitiveness. Biological roots of human conduct have become increasingly disguised: modern symbolic forms of indirect expressive behaviour have replaced more primitive and direct ones. The interplay between heredity, biology, and the social environment provides the nexus for any realistic consideration of crime causation. Conduct norms, focal concerns, subculture, socialization, subculture of violence.
