CRCJ 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Johann Spurzheim, Biosocial Criminology, Hans Eysenck

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Situational crime prevention & crime science": classical criminology. Focus on the act, on the contextualized decision. Criminology as science of domestic security (crime science) Reinforcing legal system associating crime to guilt & shame. Week 8 - etiological criminology: body & psyche. On the functions of the brain and each of its parts (1825) At the sight of that skull, i seemed to see all of a sudden, lighted up as a vast plain under a. Aming sky, the problem of the nature of the criminal an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals. With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hooton"s american criminal (1939) and crime and the man (1939)