HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Natural Selection, Canine Tooth, Social Darwinism
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Crime prevention: reduce attractiveness of criminal opportunity. Increase risk of informal sanctions: re-evaluating lombroso. This theory of the born criminal is a theoretical for run for some of our theories. Evolutionary psychologists are still interested in studying social behaviours such as aggressiveness etc: lombroso and positivist criminology. Positivist criminology has 2 elements: belief that human behaviour is a function of external and internal forces beyond individual control. Deterministic theories: impact on criminal responsibility: use of scientific method to solve problems and the use of empirical methods to test hypotheses. Section 16(2): everyone is presumed to not suffer from a mental disorder. Depends on charles darwin"s evolutionary theory: struggles for existence in the animal and plant world is part of process of natural selection, by which the biologically un-adapted would be weeded out. Natural selection refers to organism"s ability to have a great number of offspring reach sexual maturity.
