CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Offender Profiling, Dangerous Offender, Anthropological Criminology
13 Aug 2016
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They behave in other antisocial behaviours and thus, exemplify secondary features. Edwards family: no trace of criminality; successful individuals. These studies support the idea that there are biologically defined people. Degeneration: suggests that devolution was also occurring in societysociety would devolve so that social progress and civilization were not guaranteedthey were regressing into more criminal forms. Criminal traits were also considered to be traits from more primitive, savage species. These traits were believed to be manifested from the criminal body. Physiognomy: assumptions made on one"s external, corporal (physical body)), appearance (would mirror their internal moral instincts) Phrenology: the study of various bumps and indentations on an individual"s head and skull in order to infer that person"s personality and personal traits (attributes) (cranial abnormality) ^-he would infer that the man was of lower intelligence and lower character. He concluded that born criminals suffer from atavistic anomaliesthey were evolutionary throwbacks to times when people were more primitive and more savage.
