CRI205H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Preterm Birth, Dysfunctional Family, Monoamine Oxidase A
30 Mar 2017
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Trait theories: crime is the combination of biological or physiological attributes. Focus on basic human drives that are linked to antisocial behaviour (ex. Intelligence, personality, chemical, and genetic makeup) + environmental factors (ex. Lombroso: born criminal and identification of primitive atavistic anomalies. Garofalo: believed that certain physical characteristics indicate a criminal nature (ex. a lower degree of sensibility to physical pain seems to be demonstrated by the readiness with which prisoners submit to the operation of tattooing) Ferri: biological and organic factors cause delinquency and crime. Also believed that criminals should not be held personally or morally responsible for their actions because social forces outside their control cause criminality. Dugdale claimed to have proved the existence of hereditary criminality by the study. Later attempt at criminal anthropology was the somatype school" by william sheldon. Somatype: categorizing people on the basis of their body build. Criminals manifest distinct physiques susceptible to particular types of antisocial behaviour.
