Assignments

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Assignments

• Read Pages 138-168
• Be familiar with Thinking Like a Criminologist p
  167

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Where did Phrenology go?

• Franz Gall

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Phrenology

• What were phrenology's limitations?

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Phrenology Was Popular

• American Phrenological Journal and Life
  Illustrated
• Phrenological journal
• The Constitution of Man

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Phineas Gage

• Empirical Evidence for Phrenology was non
  existent
• 1848 Accident

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Enrico Ferri (1856-1929)

• Student of Lombrosos

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Inheritance School

• Ferri concluded that Crime Behavior is Inherited
• Habitual Criminals are mostly affected by
  environment.

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Inheritance School

• All crime is Involuntary Behavior

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Inheritance School

• Habitual Criminals are Mostly Affected by
  Environment

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Ferris Four criminal Types

• Insane
• Born
• Occasional
• Criminal by passion

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Inheritance school

• Three Factors that should be Considered for
  Criminality
• Social
• Economic
• Political

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What Ferri Added to Criminology

• Crime Prevention

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Raffaele Garafolo(1852-1934)

• Certain Physical characteristics indicate a
  criminal nature
• Lowered Sensitivity to pain indicated by tattooing

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Garafolo

• Probity
• Morality, values
• Pity
• Feeling for others, remorse

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What Garofolo Gave Criminology

• Society is an organic body and crime is the
  disease
• American Eugenics Movement ( The Social Defense
  Approach to Criminological Positivism

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American Eugenics

• DO YOU AGREE THAT CRIMINAL CONDUCT IS A PRODUCT
  OF A COMBINATION OF INHERITED PHYSICAL TRAITS,
  SOCIAL FACTORS AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT?

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American Eugenics

• WOULD IT BE A GOOD PREVENTATIVE MEASURE TO
  STERILIZE PEOPLE WHO PASS ON CRIMINAL TENDENCIES?

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Next Lecture

• Buck v. Bell 274 US 200(1927)
• Mandatory Sterilization to rid America of the
  Dregs of Society
• Body Types and Criminality