CJ511 - Nature of Crime

Module 4 - Born to be Bad?

Readings

• Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapter 3
• Online Reserves
• Links below contain a wealth of information. Readings are lighter than average so that you have more time to explore these links.

Discussion Topics

Are those who argue that biological factors lead to crime stuck in the past or are they looking toward a future in which physiological causes of criminal behavior can be scientifically demonstrated?

Module Links

Physical Type Theories

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/mindtype.htm

Phrenology: Grandparent of the Physical Type Perspective

http://www.jmvanwyhe.freeserve.co.uk/

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4220/gall.html

http://www.mtn.org/quack/devices/psycogrf.htm

Atavism

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02032c.htm

http://www.tld.jcu.edu.au/hist/stats/lomb/lombro2.htm

Earnest A. Hooton: Lombroso Revisited

http://www.anthro.mnsu.edu/information/biography/fghij/hooton_earnest.html

http://www.tld.jcu.edu.au/hist/stats/lomb/

Body Build and Crime

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/sheldon.html

It Runs in the Family: Crime and Heredity

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/criminology/biocriminology/index.htm
(This site has links to Twin Studies, Adoption Studies, and XYY Syndrome.)  

http://www.psychejam.com/genetics_in_psychiatry.htm

General Pedigree or Family Studies

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/dugdale.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/theorylinks.htm

Twin Studies 

http://www.ists.qimr.edu.au/

Adoption Studies  

http://www.psychejam.com/adoption_studies.htm

XYY Syndrome  

http://www.healthlinkusa.com/541B.asp

Hormonal Imbalance and Crime: "My Hormones Made Me Do It"

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi31.html

http://www.umich.edu/~psycours/531/aggressive_behavior/tsld001.htm

Crime and the Brain

http://www.crime-times.org/95a/w95ap7.htm

Diet and Crime: You Are What You Eat?

http://www.pseudoscience.org/diet.htm