CRIM 2311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meta-Analysis, The Bell Curve, Social Darwinism
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By 80"s many accepted as facts, the assumptions that: Iq scores are valid measures of this capacity. The capacity is essentially inherited rather than environmentally developed. These are all problems with this ideology and it was not peer reviewed. It revived social darwinism suggesting blacks were both cognitively and morally inferior and that this explained the crime problem. Meta analysis (wide groups of studies) report intelligence is a weak indicator of criminality. Herrnstein and murray exaggerated the importance of iq by omitting known relevant variables such as education. Not peer reviewed/academically published (it was an ideological book) The criminal mind: yochelson and samenow 1976. Criminal personality: crime is the result of pathological thought of patterns constituting a criminal mind. Inside criminal mind: criminals think differently and how a person acts is determined by how they think. Criminals are rational and choose to commit crime, no sociological factors are involved in crime causation. Offenders (cid:440)self select(cid:441) themselves into problematic life conditions.
