Theories Of Criminality

Based on evidence that was gathered from the various tests based on being able to discern criminality from facial features, I strongly believe that these theories are inaccurate. It is true that the eyes are the windows to the soul, however, how a person is genetically created to look does not exactly give any indication on their later criminal record. Believed by Hassin and Trope, faces truly are unique ways in which people are able to have non verbal conversations, they allow someone to easily judge a person’s character, in a way. To me this just means that they can maybe tell if, for example a person laughs a lot if they have laugh lines, or if they have worry lines on their forehead it may indicate that they stress over things. But there …show more content…
I think that having these other parts viewable for the participant swayed them to think a certain way. It is true that body language and posture can definitely affect how someone thinks of another. If the person is dressed in dingy dirty clothes and is just slouching they may look as more guilty than someone who is wearing a nice suit and standing straight and attentive. A really good example of this influence is when someone is walking alone at night on a sidewalk, it is known that if someone sees a guy coming at them with sagging pants and a big dark hoodie that is covering their face they will more than likely cross the street to put some distance between the other. Compared to a guy wearing a suit walking down the street, we as a society may think in our mind that he is an upstanding guy who has a job, so their is no threat in that situation. While in the previous one the guy may seem more suspicious and like some ghetto thug, who in turn poses more of a threat, even if it is just a sneaking …show more content…
It is said in the same article that a majority of the participants were able to accurately tell between criminal or noncriminal. The only inconsistency came when trying to give any specific titles to those, for example, whether they were a violent or not, and what the crime was committed. This one study does show that people can tell when there is a controlled group of pictures to distinguish through. However, on a broader scale when looking at a society, such as in the United States, where there are so many different races and cultures, I do not believe that this theory or method of tracking criminality can truly be used without there being lots of discrepancies. I think that the reason that these theories of facial features being indicators of criminality keeps coming up is because their is still no definite answer as to what causes someone to be a criminal. Whether it be their genetic makeup or environmental influences. I think that fact that nothing has been confirmed or discredited causes people to want to still know, and by doing the research and studies in every theory based inference can help bring people towards some