DIFFERENT APPROACHES UNDER THE POSITIVIDT CRIMINOLOGY Flashcards
Existence of criminal traits associates an individual’s disposition to physical disfigurement or impairment
Biological Determinism
He found the school of human physiognomy, that study the facial features and their relation to human behavior
Giambattista Della Porta
He believed that people’s true characters and inclination could be read from their facial features
Johann Kaspar Lavater
A renowned neuro-anatomist and physiologist and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain, and he developed the cranioscopy
Franz Joseph Gall
He deals with the study of the external formation of the skull indicating the conformation of the brain and the development of its various parts which is directly related to the behavior of the criminal
Charles Goring
He was the man most responsible for popularizing and spreading phrenology to wide audience
Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
Study of the body build of a person in relation to his temperament and personality and the type of offense he is most prone to commit; This refers to:
Physiology or Somatotype
He attempted to correlate body and build and constitution with characters of temperamental reactions and mentally
Ernst Kretchmer