University:
Seton Hall University
Course:
CRIM3550AA | History of Criminological Theory
Academic year:

2024
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300

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1
Author:

Andrea B.

September 7, 2023, History of Criminological theory in-class notes Lombroso - - - - - In Criminal Man (1876), he hypothesized that Atavistic men were born criminals who could identified from, at least, 5 stigmata that they had Phenotype: outward appearance on which “stigmata” could be observed with the naked eye and served as a telltale sign that person’s defective genotype that could not be observed with the naked eye. In book, reported finding that 383 criminal Italian soldiers only 43% displayed the necessary 5 stigmata. In a more vigorous study reported he compared the skulls of 711 non-criminal soldiers against the skulls of soldiers convicted of criminal homicide found that only 10% of former and none in later group had 5 or more stigmata. In his later book, he (1911) he said there were 3, not one type of criminals. o Insane o Criminaloids o Atavistic Final blow that disconfirmed his hypothesis/study was delivered by a study by Charles Goring, in his book, The English Convict. He compared 3000 criminals’ phenotypes to a control group of non-criminals and found no significant statistical differences in their phenotypes except for weight and height. The Lombrosian Myth- the myth that he was the first person to identify physical types, used statistics, controls, and measurements. New Bottles of the old wine o Goddard- a director of the school for feeble minded in NJ o Brought up again the hypothesis that criminal mind was based on genes- on people’s intelligence. o Harks back to Lombroso’s defective gene hypothesis. Sigmund Freud - His interests were in “functional disorders” of people for which there could not be found any somatic (bodily) sources. Could find no physical basis for the disorders. Parents invested in his education. University of Vienna He did cocaine and used it to treat his patients Used hypnosis Dreams contain messages on unconscious conflict in your mind Lack of resolution in your unconscious causes guilt