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- catalog abstract "Genetic screening, new reproductive technologies, the promise of gene therapies, and the possibility of cloning have made biological solutions to human social problems seem plausible. Creating Born Criminals shows us how history can guide us in responding to the reemergence of eugenics. In this first social history in sixty years of biological theories of crime, Nicole Hahn Rafter examines those theories' origins as well as their content and demonstrates their undue influence on crime control in the United States. Rafter reveals the astonishing reality of eugenic prisons, designed to hold "unfit" criminals for life, which existed as late as the 1960s and which sought to label some offenders not only as inferior but also as a threat to future generations. But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its impact upon society. While The Bell Curve and other recent books have stopped short of making eugenic recommendations, their contentions point toward eugenic conclusions, and people familiar with the history of eugenics can hear in them its echoes. Rafter demonstrates that we need to know how eugenic reasoning worked in the past and that we must recognize the dangers posed by the dominance of a theory that interprets social problems in biological terms and difference as biological inferiority.".
- catalog contributor b10242249.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its impact upon society. While The Bell Curve and other recent books have stopped short of making eugenic recommendations, their contentions point toward eugenic conclusions, and people familiar with the history of eugenics can hear in them its echoes. Rafter demonstrates that we need to know how eugenic reasoning worked in the past and that we must recognize the dangers posed by the dominance of a theory that interprets social problems in biological terms and difference as biological inferiority.".
- catalog description "Genetic screening, new reproductive technologies, the promise of gene therapies, and the possibility of cloning have made biological solutions to human social problems seem plausible. Creating Born Criminals shows us how history can guide us in responding to the reemergence of eugenics. In this first social history in sixty years of biological theories of crime, Nicole Hahn Rafter examines those theories' origins as well as their content and demonstrates their undue influence on crime control in the United States. Rafter reveals the astonishing reality of eugenic prisons, designed to hold "unfit" criminals for life, which existed as late as the 1960s and which sought to label some offenders not only as inferior but also as a threat to future generations.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-270) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : born criminals, eugenics, and biological theories of crime -- Before eugenics : idiots and idiocy in the mid-nineteenth century -- Feeble-minded women and the advent of eugenic criminology -- Criminalizing the mentally retarded -- The rise of the moral imbecile -- Degenerates appear in the prison system -- The anthropological born criminal -- The criminal imbecile -- Defective delinquents -- Psychopaths and the decline of eugenic criminology -- Defective delinquent legislation -- The aftermath of eugenic criminology.".
- catalog extent "xi, 284 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Creating born criminals.".
- catalog identifier "0252022378 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "025206741X (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Creating born criminals.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Creating born criminals.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2005 E-879".
- catalog subject "364.2/4 20".
- catalog subject "Criminal behavior United States Genetic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Criminology United States History.".
- catalog subject "Criminology ethics United States.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics United States History.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ 755.5.U5 R139c 1997".
- catalog subject "HV6047 .R33 1997".
- catalog subject "Vulnerable Populations United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : born criminals, eugenics, and biological theories of crime -- Before eugenics : idiots and idiocy in the mid-nineteenth century -- Feeble-minded women and the advent of eugenic criminology -- Criminalizing the mentally retarded -- The rise of the moral imbecile -- Degenerates appear in the prison system -- The anthropological born criminal -- The criminal imbecile -- Defective delinquents -- Psychopaths and the decline of eugenic criminology -- Defective delinquent legislation -- The aftermath of eugenic criminology.".
- catalog title "Creating born criminals / Nicole Hahn Rafter.".
- catalog type "text".