lombroso

Question 1

what is lombrosos theory

Answer 1

physiological
biological

Question 2

what does lombrosos theory state

Answer 2

• criminals are separate species
• born criminal
• can determine a criminal by their head/facial features
• criminals havent fully developed into humans (Charles Darwin (social dawenism))

Question 3

what does lombrosos compare criminals to

Answer 3

lower primates (monkeys) - atavistic features

Question 4

what was lombrosos AIM for his study

Answer 4

find physiological features that could distinguish non criminals and non criminals

Question 5

what was lombrosos PROCEDURE for his study

Answer 5

• examined facial and cranial features
• 383 dead criminals
• 3,839 photos of living to find common features

Question 6

what where lombrosos FINDINGS for his study

Answer 6

40% criminals had atavistic features

Question 7

what was lombrosos CONCLUSION for his study

Answer 7

some people are born criminal, can tell this by how they look

Question 8

how many atavistic features do men and women need to be criminal

Answer 8

MEN: 5+
WOMEN: 3+, they are too ugly and they couldnt find a partner

Question 9

what features do thiefs have

Answer 9

• expressive face
• manual dexterity
• small wandering eyes

Question 10

what features do murderers have

Answer 10

• cold glassy stares
• bloodshot eyes
• big hawk like noses

Question 11

what features do sex offenders have

Answer 11

• thick lips
• protruding ears

Question 12

what features do women offenders have

Answer 12

• shorter
• more wrinkled
• darker hair
• smaller skulls

Question 13

what are the three types of criminal that are biologically differnt

Answer 13

1. insane criminals
2. criminaloids: whose criminality is cause by environmental factors such as opportunity rather than biology
3. epileptic criminals

Question 14

who supports lombrosos theory

Answer 14

uni of china

Question 15

what is the uni of chinas AIM

Answer 15

to identify a criminals identity through physiological features by using AI

Question 16

what is the uni of chinas PROCEDURE

Answer 16

• ID photos of 1,856 Chinese men
• half had previous convictions half didn’t

Question 17

what is the uni of chinas FINDINGS

Answer 17

• correctly identified 83% real criminals
• 6% of innocent men wrongly flagged as criminals

Question 18

what is the uni of chinas CONCLUSION

Answer 18

majority of the time, criminals can be identified by their facial features

Question 19

STRENGTH: how is lombroso being the founding father of criminology a strength

Answer 19

because he was the first person to study criminology scientifically and so he paved the way for more up to date and scientific work, this challenged the superstition that all criminals where evil

Question 20

STRENGTH: how is lombrosos study a strength, two links to GRAVE

Answer 20

it shows the importance of examining clinical and historical records of criminals by examining the skulls of the dead and photos of the living
application: useful to inform future research
reliable: easily repeatable and scientific

Question 21

STRENGTH: how does the university of chinas work support his theory

Answer 21

he instigated the beginnings of offender profiling, university of correctly identified 83% of real criminals out of a sample size of 928- shows majority of the time, a crimes can be identified by their appearance

Question 22

WEAKNESS: what is his study lacking

Answer 22

the use of a control group, only looked at one group so not generalisable

Question 23

WEAKNESS: how is his theory deterministic

Answer 23

assumes we cannot escape destiny, if a person has these features they are automatically a criminal

Question 24

WEAKNESS: what does DeLisi say about his theory link to GRAVE

Answer 24

by calling criminals primitive savages and focusing on specific groups, he is basically saying non western societies are like primates, form of scientific racism
ethics: unethical, protection of participants/causing upset