Some People are just Born Deviant. Discuss.

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Some People are just Born Deviant. Discuss.

When a new life is brought into the world, does the infant have to go through a deviant aptitude test to ascertain whether the child is going to act outside of the accepted social norms of that society? Genetics are still some way from being able to allude to this, but perhaps one could envisage a future where this is realised, and becomes the accepted norm. However do we really know whether a person is born with deviant aspects within them or is if a learnt behaviour?

Cesare Lombroso (1876) whom was influenced by Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution popularised the theory of a born criminal through biological determinism, believing that an individual has physiognomic attributes or deformities which equate that person to having criminal behaviour in them. By using a method called positivist science, he hoped to find out whether criminality was inherited, then the born criminal could be distinguished by physical atavistic stigmata, such as, large jaw; low sloping forehead; high cheekbones; hawk-like nose; fleshy lips and insensitive to pain. This was Lombroso's attempted to introduce a scientific methodology, so a person can predict whether that individual is