Problem
Write 2 to 3 pages your analysis of the following questions:
I. Why should Criminologist study films about crime and criminals?
i. Explain the difference between academic Criminology and popular culture;
ii. What are the short comings of academic criminology and what of popular culture about the crime and the criminal?
iii. How and why would mixing of both (Popular Criminology and Academic Criminology) could enhance our understanding of crime?
II. Explain Cesare Lombroso theory about "born criminal" and relate it to Frankenstein.
i. Explain how does the movie treat the relationship between the brain and crime;
ii. How do science and medicine, according to biological theory of crime, help Criminological understanding of crime and criminals?
iii. Which movie character represents a Criminologist and which the Criminal, and why?
III. Explain psychoanalytic theory of crime and how Psycho illustrates its main points.
i. How is a psychological motive important in understanding homicide?
ii. Explain how the movie reveals complexity of a murderer;
iii. Enlist aspects of Norman's split personality and how his psychology leads to homicide.