CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Atavism, Eugenics, Stage Fright

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Therefore: criminals are mentally defective due to genetics: recommendations: sterilization, criticque: Failure to measure environmental in uences only studied males: richard dugdale 1874, method: studied the family called the judes, general pedigree studies, reviewed: 7 generations of the judes cost tons of tax payers money, hospitals, police arrest etc. Intelligence cold be calculated by measuring their head: bigger heads, bigger brains. Iq: chronological age divided by mental age multiplied by 100 average score was 100: binet"s intentions. The results can leave a de ning (negative) sentiment, internalization of bad results and lowers self esteem of student, becomes a self ful lling prophecy: modern studies. Intellectual incompetence: martin kallikak, her grandfather, while he was a young soldier, reproduced a with bar maid reproduced feeble mindedness, illegitimate son. The line that was of this offspring were degenerates reproduced with another woman, a religious woman, quaker produced reproductive individuals, lawyers, doctors, judgesetc feeble mindedness is inherited.