Chap 1 (seg 4) Flashcards
refers to the BEHAVIOR WHICH IS CRIMINAL IN NATURE; a behavior which violates a law
Criminal Behavior
It is also refer to conduct of an offender that leads to and INCLUDING THE COMMISSION OF AN UNLAWFUL ACT
Criminal Behavior
Origins of Criminal Behavior :
- Biological Factor
- Personality Disorder Factor
- Learning Factor
Biological Factor:
a. Born Criminal
b. Somatotype and Physique Theory
c. Juke and Kallikak
developed and Tested his classification system also
known as SOMATOTYPING
William H. Sheldon
Heredity as a factor implies that criminal acts are unavoidable, inevitable consequences of THE BAD SEED OR THE BAD BLOOD
Biological Factor
biological theory of criminology suggests that CRIMINALITY IS INHERITED and that someone “born criminal” could be identified by the way they look.
Born Criminal
TYPES OF SOMATOTYPE:
- Endomorphs
- Ectomorphs
- Mesomorph
body type is predisposed to BUILD MUSCLE, BUT NOT STORE FAT
Mesomorph
He attempted to document as DIRECT LINK BETWEEN BIOLOGY and personality through development of classification system of personality patterns and corresponding body built.
William H. Sheldon
characterized by INCREASED FAT STORAGE, a wide waist, and large bone structure.
Endomorphs
characterized by LONG, THIN MUSCLES and limbs and low fat storage
Ectomorphs
TYPES OF PHYSIQUE THEORY:
- Asthenic Type
- Athletic Type
- Pyknic Type
- Dysplastic or Mixed Type
He developed his Physique Theory in his book Physique and
Character published in 1912
ERNST KRETSCHMER
This individual is skinny, with RIB BONES are easily counted
and slender body type
Asthenic Type
This type usually commits crime such as THEFT AND FRAUD
Asthenic Type
This type usually commits VIOLENT CRIME.
Athletic Type
This individual has broad shoulders, POWERFUL LEGS AND MUSCULAR BODY types
Athletic Type
This individual is stout, has short STUBBY HAND AND WITH ROUND BODY
Pyknic Type
This individual has body type that is less clearly
evident HAVING ANY PRODOMINANT TYPE
Dysplastic or Mixed Type
This type usually commits DECEPTION, FRAUD AND VIOLENCE
Pyknic Type
WHO PULISHED THE BOOK OF JUKE FAMILY?
RICHARD DUGDALE
was regarded as MOTHER of Criminals.
Margarette Ada Juke
WHO PULISHED THE BOOK OF Kalikak Family?
HENRY GODDARD
refers to an act that EXHIBITS A PERVASIVE PATTERN of
disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into childhood
Personality Disorder Factor
explains that criminal BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED PRIMARILY by observing or listening to people around us
Learning Factor
WHAT ARE THE learning theories:
a. Differential Association Theory
b. Imitation Theory
c. Strain Theory
is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and
UNHEALTHY PATTERN OF THINKING, functioning and behaving.
Personality Disorder Factor
It proposes that PEOPLE LEARN VALUES, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior through their interactions with others.
Differential Association Theory
He believed that the origins of deviance were similar to the ORIGIN OF FADS AND FASHION
Gabriel Tarde
The term serial murder was popularized in the 1970s by?
Robert Ressler
the UNLAWFUL HOMICIDE ATLEAST TWO PEOPLE
carried out by the same person (or persons) in separate events occurring at different times.
Serial Killer
His case has since INSPIRED MANY NOVELS
and films about serial killers
Ted Bundy
The three characteristics of almost serial killers during their childhood:
- Bed-wetting.
- Fire-starting
- Animal Torture
Famous Serial Killers:
- Ted Bundy
- Edmund Kemper
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Ed Gein
He confessed to 36 KILLINGS OF YOUNG WOMEN
across several states in the 1970s, but experts believe that the final tally may be closer to 100 or more.
Ted Bundy
All BLACK HAIR ang victim
Ted Bundy
BLONDE COLLEGE student victim
Edmund Kemper
He killed BOTH GRANDPARENTS at the age of 15 to “see what it felt like.”
Edmund Kemper
he KILLED HIS MOTHER AND FRIEND before
turning himself in
Edmund Kemper
BLACK PEOPLE victims
Jeffrey Dahmer
.He was an American serial killer who TOOK THE LIVES OF 17 MALES between 1978 and 1991.
Jeffrey Dahmer
He grew up in a repressive household dominated by a CONTROLLING MOTHER.
ED GEIN
the investigation of his home yielded a
highly disturbed man who KEPT HUMAN ORGANS AND FASHIONED CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES OUT OF BODY PARTS
ED GEIN
