4.1 - policy development - genetic theories

Question 1

What were the 2 main ways genetic theories informed policy development?

Answer 1

1)Eugenics
2)death penalty

Question 2

Define what eugenics are.

Answer 2

Eugenics are a set of beliefs believing that human race was at risk of ‘degenerating’

Question 3

Why did eugenics believe the human race was at risk of degenerating?

Answer 3

The lower class were having more children than higher class, the ‘inferior’ genes were being passed down.

Question 4

Give 3 examples of what ‘inferior’ genes are.

Answer 4

1)Poverty
2)low intelligence
3)criminality

Question 5

What date did the US supreme court accept compulsory sterilisation?

Answer 5

1927

Question 6

What was the ‘meeting critera’ for compulsory sterilisation?

Answer 6

Genetically ‘unfit’ or has a learning disability

Question 7

What is the view on eugenics today?

Answer 7

It’s no longer used and is discredited due to be the breach of human rights

Question 8

What was the reason for the US supreme court making compulsory sterilisation legal?

Answer 8

To protect the health of the state

Question 9

How does policy development inspired from genetic theories aim to reduce crime?

Answer 9

Crime is a physical abnormally and the policy development can change the workings iof the body

Question 10

Example.of eugenics

Answer 10

Nazi sterilisation - it contributed to many of the social problems in the 19th century