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- 1Biological and Phychological theories of crime...- criminal or deviant behaviour is determind by physical or psychological conditions
- crime is put down to their being something 'wrong' with the person, rather than society. - 2biological factors- what is Phrenology?personality could be determined by the shape of your skull
- 3outline cearser lambroso's study..6th nov 1835 - 19th oct 1901
- looks at genetic make up of criminals
- criminals had abnormal features that made them different from the rest of the population
- large jaws and cheekbones- (earlier stage of evolution) - 4what do psychologists look into?- criminal behaviours; genetically based personality characteristics
- extra y chromosome- neirotic extroverts
- PET scans; psychopaths often have brain abnormalities; organic reasons for behaviour
- poor relationships with mother/father in childhood; malajusted personalities. - 5why do sociologists reject both biological and psychological theories?because neither say anything about the role society plays, or about social groups and the pressures they push to look a certain way, and act a certain way- peer pressure, not all criminals have these physical atributes, you cannot generalise if crime is a social construct
- 6biological explanations for criminal behaviour...- they assume some people are 'born a criminal' who are biologically different to non-criminals
- they have mental and physicial differences- causes them to have an inability to learn and follow rules
- its determined by genes
- a form of illness caused by pathological factors, specific to individuals
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