CC210 Lecture Notes - Boston Strangler, John Dillinger, Bradycardia
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Famous left handed criminals: jack the ripper john dillinger billy the kid the boston strangler. Cerebrum divided into parts left and right cerebral hemispehres: lateralization: functional specialization in one hemisphere. Deficits in left hemisphere activation ersult in problems with language comprehension, processing and communications. Week 4: the bad seed: evolutionary theory and crime. A branch of genetics that studied the relative contributions of heredity + environment to behavioural and personality characteristics. Genes affect behaviour in interaction with environmental influences. Characteristics of genes that mark a locations of genes that may contribute to a trait. People commit crime because they are looking for excitement b/c they are chronically under aroused. Criminality more likely when environmental and genetic risk factors occur together. E. g underaroused ans + parents who model violence. Specific behaviours are caused by biological mechanisms that evolved through natural selection. As the world changes- different traits become more adaptive.
