SOCI 3810 Chapter : SOCI 3810- Pathological Approach to Crime
23 Jan 2012
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The pathological approach to crime: individually based theories- heidi. This was a result from the growing trend in scientific discovery. The demonological approach: criminality as sin: derives basis from religious authority and viewed crime as sin and criminal as sinner. Driven by temptation and demonic possession: cause of sin is supernatural or preternatural- stems from otherworldly forces external to individual. The pathological approach: criminality as sickness: human problems were increasingly viewed as scientific problems that could be studied, known, categorized, regulated, treated and cured, theorists have argued that all mental differences among human. Inventing normal: finding of the normal man - brought together the diversity of human characteristics and conduct in the form of the mean , juxtaposed the average man with the inferior classes. Psychology and criminality: psychological theories view crimes as direct product of some internal flaw or defect.
