CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cesare Lombroso, Craniometry, Intelligence Quotient
21 Nov 2013
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Novel idea certain individuals or groups are inferior : at very least controlled, likely be eliminated. Mid 1800\s: steps taken to identify inferior people, same period of slavery in us, likely related to increase and justification for slavery. Craniometry no evidence: scientists not willing to give up ideas of individuals and inferiority. Phrenology: still sought to support assumptions of eugenics, human dispositions can be determined from distinctions (ie. bumps, believed to conform to the brain, specific sections = specific personality trait. Phrenology very little empirical evidence: scientists not willing to give up ideas of individual and inferiority. Getting a little" racist here now: physiognomy. Occurred around same time as darwin"s theory. Facial and body features indicate developmental problems. Widely considered the first attempt at scientific criminological theory: although based on darwin, significantly influenced. Atavism: throwback to earlier stage of evolutionary development, these humans devolve rather than evolve. Commit crime due to external factors: criminaloids. Those committing minor offences: mentally ill.
