Creating Born Criminals
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Creating Born Criminals
Author | : Nicole Hahn Rafter |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780252067419 |
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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.