Criminology - Lombroso
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- Created on: 29-04-15 23:37
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- Lombroso"The Female Offender"1903/1920
- based on theory of evolution
- born not made
- women who commit crime can look normal
- a rarety in comparison with male criminals
- women who commit crime are abnormal
- women = morally weaker and inferior
- men are more advanced
- feelings of love are short lived with female offenders
- criminal women are masculine and think like men
- women are ferocious, childlike, immature, jealous and cruel
- crime in women are inherent tendencies that haven't developed into proper, feminine women with moral refinements
- lack maternal drive and driven by passions
- are also intelligent
- women are motivated by revenge, greed and others
- criminal women adjust easily to mental and physical pain
- can adjust to prison life easily
- women that commit crime are short, dark haired, moles, masculine features
- based on image of witch
- physiological evidence - facial features, moles, height, dark hair, skin colour
- however, females are still much less likely to offend than men
- women stay at home and men go out and adapt to environment
- prostitutes are a sexual deviant and serious criminal type
- women who commit crime = physiological immobility, psychological passivity and amorality
- cold and calculating
- based on theory of evolution
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