Biological explanations evaluation

Question 1

Contribution to criminology?

Answer 1

credited with shifting crime research away from a moralistic discourse towards a scientific realm

Question 2

What has DeLisi drawn attention to?

Answer 2

racial undertones - many features found among people of African descent

Question 3

What did Goring set out to establish?

Answer 3

whether there were any physical/mental abnormalities among the criminal classes

Question 4

What did Goring do?

Answer 4

compared 3000 criminals and 3000 non criminals

Question 5

What did Goring conclude?

Answer 5

there was no evidence that offenders are a distinct group with unusual features

Question 6

What did Lambroso not do which means poor control?

Answer 6

didn’t compare his criminal group with a control group

Question 7

What may the facial differences actually be influenced by?

Answer 7

poor diet; deprivation and poor health

Question 8

what may lambroso be considered as?

Answer 8

the father of psychology - his theory was the basis from where modern criminology developed from