CRI 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Atavism, Prefrontal Cortex, Age 13
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Crime is not a rationally reasoned behavior nor do rational decisions have anything to do with it. Although environmental conditions and situations provoke or restrain criminal behavior, they do not cause the commission of the crime. The real criminal is born with criminal traits and will always be at odds with civilized society. Viewed criminals as distinct set of people who were biologically inferior to law-abiding citizens or inherently defective in some way. Crimes are caused by an innate biological makeup that no law can affect. Criminal by nature not nurture. they did not simply behavior differently, they were inherently different in their biology that predetermined their criminal behavior. Observed physical characteristics (head, body, arms, skin) of italian prisoners and compared them to. From these comparisons he concluded that criminals were physically different from law- abiding citizens and that these differences demonstrated the biological causes of criminal behavior.
