CC290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cesare Lombroso, Biosocial Theory, Natural Selection
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Crime would increase even though there was a logical reason of why crimes happen and it makes you more fear full: page 32- things that would determine a criminal. Criminals can"t be rational as we thought, we think why do they commit crimes. Charles darwin connects to attributes that lombroso was studying: survival of the fittest. The lack of evolution of the criminal, social, physical, biological characteristics: criminals of being anti-social, how an individual can relate to society they don"t share the same social values like we do, follows biosocial theory= anti-social. Ways to cure the criminal and not deter the criminal. Anti-social tendencies because criminals don"t live the same way regarding the social order of society. People are born as a blank state (tala rosa) How much of the influence is our power of the choice of a crime: beyond individual control, human behaviour is the function of internal and external forces.
