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

2024
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190

Pages:

2
Author:

Andrea B.

October 3, 2023, History of Criminological Theory In-class Notes Henry Goddard - - - Goddard Schools Controversial ideas Children whose parents couldn’t take care of them wanted them to be institutionalized and wanted to start a eugenics program so they wouldn’t reproduce. Sterilized people Crackpot science Did not employ control groups in his experiments. His work ruined his reputation. Born in Maine Only child of a white devote quaker family. Mother remarried a missionary requiring her to travel. Haverford college- BA Got an MA at the same college. PHD at Clark College Critical Life experiences o Was a teacher, principle, and professor at West Chester o Retired from Ohio State University- taught there for 16 years. o Ohio bureau of juvenile research o Director of the vineland training school- 6 years  Intelligence and criminality o The Kallikak Family  Family in southern pines  An affair- the family was the product of the affair.  Traced the feeble minded from the affair and with the original wife.  Higher percentage of feeble minded in Kallikak family o Alcoholics, pimps, thieves, people with mental disorders  No control groups.  The environment of the Kallikak family was different.  The two families lived in very different environments so his findings can’t be proven true.  He photoshopped pictures of them to make it look believable. Thought genes determined your fate- psychological positivist. Maladaptive behaviors o Criminality o Alcoholism Mendel’s laws of inheritance o Mother and father o Trait (like eye color) o Each parent has two genes. o Each contributes one trait. o Dominant and recessive traits o - - To be feeble minded both father and mother would have to give you a recessive gene for it. Idiot was the feeblest minded. Imbeciles second Morons least feeble minded IQ= mental age divided by chronological age x100 o Mental age is a score on a test. o Chronological is what’s on your birth certificate. Critiques o Undermined other scientists. o No control group