CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Francis Galton, Eugenics, Smart People
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What i do is not necessarily the product of free choice. Product of free disposition, punishment doesn"t really work; you want to get to the root of. It emerges in 1840 and it"s in its height until 1930 the problem. Sickness in the head, biological, social or psychological key principles of positivist crim. He is not a criminologist, many of his works are important to criminology. Human faculty (1883) coins the term eugenics (breeding in desirable qualities and breed out undesirables qualities, change human life) Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage. Virile eugenics is also a berial creed and the focus is to benefit the human kind. Eugenics is full of hopefulness and finally it appeals to mainly of the noblest feelings. There is a focus on the action not the actor (lombroso)
