Lombroso's Criminal Theory

Chapter four focuses in on there are different ways to explain an individual 's body that could affect them to partake in some form of criminality. It also brought in the fact of the IQ test. The book says, “Ranking from the best to the lowest intelligence, the first group were the morons, the second-lowest group were the imbeciles, and the lowest-intelligence group were the idiots”(Tibbetts). Looking at this rank, I noticed how the words meant something a little differently. When I hear or look at these words, I assume that its trying to make it seem as if you have no intelligence at all or its not up to par. Another statement from the text states, “Thus, the moron is the one group out of the three categories of feebleminded that is smart …show more content…
In my opinion, I believe that Lombroso 's theory was better to understand than Sheldon 's theory. According to the book, it states, “Lombroso claimed that born criminals cannot be stopped from their natural tendencies to be antisocial. On the other hand, he claimed that, although it was their nature to commit crime, born criminals could be stopped, or at least partially deterred by society” (Tibbetts). I find this to be true because of the simple fact that born criminals can make a change towards their life, insteading of alwasy choosing to commit crimes. Committing a crime can become tiresome due to the fact that it doesn 't get you anywhere in life. Some born criminals receieved this type of label based on what form of environment they came from or their peers. For example, a born criminal could go and rob someone 's house because they have seen another person do it. By doing this, it will allow them to get what they want instead of earning it in a better …show more content…
His theory was concentrated on individual 's body type. The text says, “A young male with an athletic build would be encouraged to join sports teams and engage in high-risk behavior by peers" (Tibbetts, 2012). This is something that I don 't find true. I know of some males who has an athletic build, but they don 't engage in high-risk behavior by their peers. Another statement was, "Who would gangs most desires members? More muscular, athletic individuals would be better at fighting and performing acts that require a certain degree of physical strength and stamina" (Tibbetts, 2012). Individuals who are mesomorph can find other things to do instead of causing harm to the world. Overall, Sheldon may possibly need to rethink on his theory and try and different method that would allow it to be more