Profiling works
Of course, in times of political correctness, this scientist oeuvre is not taking into account, because it's hurtfully thruthful!
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) physician. In 1876, he wrote, the criminal man during autopsy, certain physical stigmata was apparent, concluded the certain number of theses indicated a born criminal, atavistic criminal. Stigmata related to an atavistic criminal:
Deviation in head size and shape from type common to race and region from which the criminal came
Asymmetry of the face
Eye defects and peculiarities
Excessive dimensions of the jaw and cheek bones
Ears of unusual size, or occasionally very small, or standing out from the head as do those of the chimpanzee
Nose twisted, upturned, or flattened in thieves, or aquiline or beak-like in murderers, or with a tip rising like a peak from swollen nostrils.
Lips fleshy, swollen, & protruding
Pouches in the cheek like those of some animals
Peculiarities of the palate, such as are found in some reptiles, and cleft palate.
Chin receding, or excessively long, or short and flat, as in apes.
Abnormal dentition.
Abundance, variety, and precocity of wrinkles
Anomalies of the hair, marked by characteristics of the hair of the opposite sex.
Defects of the thorax, such as too many or too few ribs, or supernumerary nipples
Inversion of sex characters in the pelvic organs
Excessive length of arms
Supernumerary fingers and toes
Imbalance of the hemispheres of the brain (asymmetry of cranium)
Summary of his work
He consistently emphasized the need for direct study of the individual, utilizing measurements and statistical methods in anthropological, social, and economic data.
He began with the basic assumption of the biological nature of human character and behavior:
A. He first conceived of the criminal as a throwback to a more primitive type of brain structure, and therefore of behavior.
B. He later modified this to include general degeneracy of defectiveness.
C. He never claimed that the born criminal constituted more than 40% probably less, only about 1/3 of the total criminal population
With successive years of study, discussion, and contact with critics, he modified his theory and methodmore and more to include all kinds of social, economic, and environmental data. Through it all, he always attempted to be:
A. Objective, in method, often statistical
B. Positive in the sense of deterministic
C. Faithful to the basic idea of cause as a chain of interrelated events, not the more
familiar and popular doctrine of self-determinism of human behavior, to say nothing of the demonistic. In "The female offender"written in 1909, he said that most women are not criminal but those that are, are most often occasional criminals but, some women are actavistic criminals harder to detect than men and more vicious.


1 Comments:
Great Stuff CB! - A MUCH better job than I did by just screaming PROFILING WORKS GOD DAMN IT!
God I LOVE science!
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