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mwit1967

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What do we know today about the relationship between IQ and crime?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Match the theorist(s) in Column 1 with their contributions to Criminology in Column 2
 
  1. Walters and White
  a. Combined sociology, psychology & biology systems model that includes interactions in the environment.
  2. Samenow and Yochelson
  b. Lifestyle criminals at a young age begin to pursue failure in reckless & dramatic ways.
  3. Wilson and Herrnstein
  c. Anti-social & deviant offspring traced in history of Revolutionary War soldiers two families.
  4. C. Ray Jeffery
  d. We imitate or model those behaviors that are rewarded even aggression.
  5. Henry Goddard
  e. Used genetics & psychological traits & personality to argue explanations for street crime.
  6. Albert Bandura
  f. Identified 52 thinking errors in hospitalized criminally insane.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: key points to be made
No longer accept early 1900s view that feeblemindedness is lower class trait
IQ more viewed as predisposing factor rather than cause of any behavior
No evidence for direct relationship between race or ethnicity and IQ
1970s studies tended to support idea that IQ was a reasonable predictor of delinquency
IQ tests contain inherent bias for middle class and white, measures language skill more than innate intelligence
IQ may be only be related to school performance thus indirectly school adjustment as well as to peer pressure and self-control
Strengthening IQ may build resistance to delinquency through stronger school ties

Answer to Question 2

1.  b
2.  f
3.  e
4.  a
5.  c
6.  d




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