CRI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vineland, New Jersey, Twin, Biosocial Criminology
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Modern biological and biosocial theories of crime and delinquency. Posiivist criminology: geneics (heritability, neuroscience (neurotransmiters, environmentally induced (lead) Does not rely on strict determinism based on body types or external features. The kallikaks (henry goddard: training school for backward and feebleminded children in vineland, nj, understand causes of mental deiciencies, marin kallikak jr, great-great-grandfather. 480 descendants in study (bad line), 64 normal. Adopion studies, twin studies fix the biology vary the environment: adopion studies individual raised away from biological parents, twins reared in the same household. Genes constant (idenical twins) w/ varied environment. Shared environments: social class of parents, parental religiosity, global parening, warmth, parental vocab level, neighborhood disorganizaion. Heritability coeicient (h^2: 0 and 1. Coeicient of determinaion (r^2: 0 and 100% Sample: 14,427 adopive children from denmark adopted between 1927-1947: excluded if: Sample: twins register of denmark; 1881-1920 both twins liven to be at least 15.
