LS222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Extraversion And Introversion, Eugenics

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS222
• Professor: Juvenile Delinquency

Document Summary

Atavists: study of body shape and how it relates to delinquency. Higher proportion of mesomorphs in delinquents than found in the general population. Led people to believe that being muscular and strong resulted in higher levels of offeneding. Mesomorphs due to their physique, and higher level of athleticism tend to b better offenders. Encouraging because they are better at getting away with so more persistent offenders. When revistited in later years there was a correlation found when looking at arre. When looking at self report data the mesomorph data was accounted for by other things. For example, most mesomorphs tended to be extraverted and that extraversion would account for high levels of offending. More likely to be arrested than to be more criminal. Police to be more threatened by mesomorphs, therefore more likely to arrested. Theoretical nothing causal about a particular body type of to be ith it,