Scientific experiments in 'deviant' behaviours

Question 1

eugenics

Answer 1

selective breeding, whereby people with good biological stock were encouraged to reproduce and those with poor discouraged. this discredited and unethical practice of trying to improve the human race was rejected by many societies after WW2

Question 2

eugenics discourse

Answer 2

studies show how biological explanations are still being used to justify discriminatory practices

Question 3

eugenics in criminology

Answer 3

influence of policy: justification for forced sterilisation and segregation laws for targeting “inferior” groups, flawed research methods, unethical social control

Question 4

forced sterilisation

Answer 4

government policies that coerce people into undergoing surgical or other sterilization procedures against their will, used for “habitual criminals, confirmed criminals, or persons guilty of some particular offense”

Question 5

standford prison experiment

Answer 5

study on conformity to social roles, prematurely ended after 6 days due to extreme mistreatment of prisoners by the guards, reveal how people will easily conform to social roles or begin to internalise given societal labels.

Question 6

in conclusion

Answer 6

science has over the years been misused to justify discrimination and oppression by claiming certain groups inherently possess inferior levels of intelligence or other valued abilities compared to other groups