CRIM 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Xyy Syndrome, Dopamine Receptor D2
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The brain is the organ of the mind and the locus of personality. That basic determinants of human behavior are constitutionally or genetically based. Observed differences in rates and type of criminality between biologically-based groups is potentially at least partially the result of biological differences between these groups. Determinants of human behavior may be passed from generation to generation, so a tendency toward crime may be inherited. Much of human behavior is fundamentally rooted in instinctive behavioral responses characteristic of biological organisms everywhere. The interplay among heredity, biology, and the social environment provides the nexus for any realistic consideration of crime causation: overlap of nature/nurture. Biology as positivism: social determinism, application of science, studies relationship between human physical characteristics and. The head and face- phrenology- shape of skull can determine personality. Lombroso: atavism- criminals were devolved individuals- while most, devolution- descent or degeneration to a lower or worse state.
