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-It argues that intelligence is largely determined genetically, that ancestry determines I.Q
intelligence quotient and that low intelligence as demonstrate low I.Q becomes having
criminal behaviour. It is also refers to all environmental variables that impact who are
including our childhood experience, how we were raised, our social relationship and our
surrounding culture.
BRAIN DISORDER
- Modern attempt to probe (investigate) about brain disorder was conducted by Portuguese
physician ANTONIO MONIZ in 1935. He performed prefrontal lobotomy (destruction of
the lobes of the brain) as a last resort for non-responsive mental patients. According to
him, out of twenty mental patients, fifteen showed some degree of improvement as a result
of the operation.
INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT
-The I.Q is a measurement of your intelligence and it is expressed in a number, it is
measure of a person's reasoning ability. In other words, an I.Q test is supposed to gauge
how well someone can use information and logic to answer question or make predictions. A
real intelligence quotient test is a structure, researched and clinical assessment with
psychological backing and conducted by a trained professional.
ALFRED BINET
(A FRENCH PSYCHOLOGIST WHO INVENTED THE FIRST PRACTICAL LO TEST
CALLED BINET SIMON TEST)
TWIN STUDIES
-The studies and adoptees are ingenious ways of attempting to address the nature vs nature
debate that is, whether criminality is inherited or learned. Such studies are after the fact in
nature and begin with criminals who have a twin and then attempts to find the other twin
in order to discover whether he or she is also a criminal.
BIO-CHEMICAL
-Crime specially violent, is a function of DIET, VITAMIN INTAKE, HORMONAL
IMBALANCE, or FOOD ALLERGIES.
MENSTRUATION AND CRIME
-Found that nearly half of the crimes of her sample female inmates had occurred during
menstruation or pre-menstruation.
SCHAUSS
-Study comparing nutritional differences of delinquents and non-delinquents, the
surprising major differences found was that DELINQUENTS DRANK MORE MILK.
HYPOGLYCEMIA
-Low blood sugar also been claimed to be linked to impaired brain function and commit
violent crime.
SIGMUND FREUD
(FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS) -HE INTRODUCED THE PSYCHOSEXUAL
HUMAN STAGES OF
-BORN MAY 6, 1856 -HE ALSO INTRODUCED PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
(PERSONALITY THEORY). THE ID "PLEASURE PRINCIPLE", EGO "REALITY
PRINCIPLE", SUPEREGO "MORALITY PRINCIPLE".
OEDIPUS COMPLEX
-In the young boy, the Oedipus complex or more correctly, conflict, arises because the boy
develops sexual (pleasurable) desires for his mother. He wants to possess his mother
exclusively and get rid of his father to enable him to do so.
-Irrationally, the boy thinks that if his father were to find out about all this, his father
would take away what he loves the most. During the phallic stage what the boy loves most
is his penis. Hence the boy develops castration anxiety.
-The little boy then sets out to resolve this problem by imitating, copying and joining in
masculine dad-type behaviors. This is called identification, and is how the three-to-five
year old boy resolves his Oedipus complex.
-Identification means internally adopting the values, attitudes, and behaviors of another
person.
ELECTRA COMPLEX
• For girls, the Electra complex is less than satisfactory. Briefly, the girl desires the father,
but realizes that she does not have a penis. This leads to the development of PENIS ENVY
and the wish to be a boy.
• The girl resolves this by repressing her desire for her father and substituting the wish for
a penis with the wish for a baby. The girl blames her mother for her 'castrated state,' and
this creates great tension.
• The girl then represses her feelings (to remove the tension) and identifies with the mother
to take on the female gender role.
⚫The genital stage is the last stage of Freud's psychosexual theory of personality
development, and begins in puberty. It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the
successful resolution of which is settling down in a loving one-to-one relationship with
another person in our 20's.
⚫ Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self-pleasure like during
the phallic stage.
⚫ For Freud, the proper outlet of the sexual instinct in adults was through heterosexual
intercourse. Fixation and conflict may prevent this with the consequence that sexual
perversions may develop.
⚫ For example, fixation at the oral stage may result in a person gaining sexual pleasure
primarily from kissing and oral sex, rather than sexual intercourse.
*DEBORAH KALLIKAK
*Martin Kallikak
Idiot 0-2 years old
Imbecile 2-7 years
Feeble minded 7-12
CULTURE?
Refers to the system of values and meanings and social norms shared by a group of
individuals; way of life of the majority of people.
SUB-CULTURE?
A sub-culture within an existing culture that maintain unique set of values and belief that
are in conflict with conventional social norms. Culture within a culture