PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Convenience Store, Y Chromosome, Cell Nucleus
27 Mar 2017
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Often seen as a form of evolution/predisposition. The genetic predisposition has to be triggered by a certain event or situation. Italian physician: had a lot of interest in psychiatry. interested in the physical characteristics in criminals. Criminal man (1876): the latest edition was published in 2006 (in its 5th edition). Based on darwin"s idea that some people are genetically closer to their primitive ancestry than others: criminals have not evolved as much as the rest of the human race. Criminals represent a separate species that have not yet evolved into homo sapiens (homo delinquens: they are a whole separate species. Collected data on physical measurements of italian prisoners. Eventually proposed a taxonomy of criminal"s (5 types): professional (crime as a trade, juridical (crime as impulsivity, passion (crime as intense love, criminaloids (crime due to bad examples, born criminal (crime as predisposition)- lombroso. Goring (1913) compared the physical measurements of 3,000 english prisoners to.
