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Lesson 5: Crime and deviance
L.O. How do we explain criminal and deviant behaviour?
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Learning Objective:
• What are the different explanations for crime?
• Learning Skills: Reasoning and making links
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What is happening?
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Biological explanation
• Are we born criminals?• Lombroso 1876 believed thatYou could tell if a person was aCriminal by the shape of their head, jaw, forehead and Nose.
What are2 questions you would like to ask Lombroso if he walked
into the room right now…
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Lombroso
• Features of a criminal:• Sloping forehead• Long arms• Large ears• Asymmetrical head and face
• If you had these features and liked tattoos then Lombroso said you were a savage primitive man who was born a criminal!
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Characteristics of a criminal
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Lombroso
• Lombroso studied prisoners in Italian prisons I in 1876.
• He said that criminals were a separate species and did not have any morals.
He distinguished different types of criminals• murderers were said to have:
Cold, glassy, blood-shot eyes, curly, abundant hair, strong jaws, long ears and thin lips • Whilst sex offenders have:
Glinting eyes, strong jaws, thick lips, lots of hair and projecting ears.'
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What questions would you like to ask Lombroso
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A Biological Explanation for criminal behaviour?
• Tony Mobley:his lawyer argued hisgenes meant he was born to kill.
One of you is a defence lawyer one a prosecutor of Tony Mobley: Discuss
this case.
14 care homes.Depression
AnxietyPost traumatic stress.
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Sociologists view of criminal behaviour
• How crime and criminals are socially constructed
• Socially constructed: views of what is criminal or deviant behaviour are influenced by the values and norms of the society we live in.
• So… society creates what is criminal and deviant if it goes against the norms and values of that time.
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Socially constructed
• Laws can change from culture to culture and time to time.
Before 1967 to be a practising homosexual was illegal.
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Psychological explanations
• PMS: what is it?• abdominal Bloating, Cramps, including leg cramps, Swelling of
body parts, hypoglycaemia• Depression, anxiety, Anger , Guilt, Fatigue, Aggressiveness• Intolerance, Irritability, Restlessness, Sugar and Salt Craving,
Increased intake of Alcohol, Hysteria
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PMS case study
• Do you think the women mentioned in the case study should have been acquitted (freed) for their crimes?
Yes… because
NO…because
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Maternal deprivation
• Research has shown that early childhood deprivation, lack of secure attachment in childhood could also lead to a person developing a criminal personality as they are looking for attention and affection from elsewhere.
• Deprivation: a lack of something
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Explanations for criminal and deviant behaviour so far…
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Explain one theory to the person sat
next to you