CRM 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 3: Eiffel Tower, Social Forces, Enrico Ferri

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

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The perspective of the school: positivism is more accurately called philosophy than theory, abraham kaplan (1968) identifies two major forms of positivism, 1. Enlightenment philosophy (classical school)-18th c. : emphasis on the importance of reason and experience, 2. Initial data collection on over 54,000 subjects included not only the living, but measures of the cadavers too. Lombroso called (cid:862)the (cid:271)or(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al(cid:863: also reported that criminals manifest traits of sensory impairment; a lack of moral sense, particularly with the absence of remorse; and they use slang and tattoos, distinguished other types of criminals: 5: formulated the more universal notion of the nature of crime, by which he referred to acts that all civilized societies would readily recognize as offensive. Ectomorph: small boned, lean and frail, sensitive and introverted (shy) personality, 2. Mesomorph: muscular, large-boned body build, aggressive, action-oriented, outgoing (extroverted) personality, 3. Endomorph: soft and fat build relaxed, jovial, and extroverted personality found that delinquents were mostly mesomorphs.