part 3 Flashcards
existence of criminal traits associates an individual’s evil disposition to physical disfigurement or impairment
BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
Italian physician who founded the school of human physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relation to human behavior.
GIAMBATTISTA DELLA PORTA
Origin of the word Physiognomy
Greek word physis, meaning “nature” and gnomon meaning “to judge or to interpret.”
refers to the evaluation of a person’s personality or character through an examination of that person’s outward appearance.
PHYSIOGNOMY
a Swiss theologian who believed that people’s true characters and inclinations could be read from their facial features.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
He published his painstakingly detailed study of facial fragments in 1783.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
He concluded that one could determine criminal behavior through the examination of a person’s eyes, ears, nose, chin, and facial shape.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
a renowned neuro-anatomist and physiologist and a pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain
FRANZ JOSEPH GALL
the study that deals with the relationship between the skull and human behavior.
cranioscopy / phrenology
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.
phrenology or craniology
He believed that criminal characteristics were inherited and recommended that people with such characteristics should not be allowed to reproduce.
CHARLES GORING
was the assistant of Franz Joseph Gall; the man most responsible for popularizing and spreading phrenology to a wide audience.
JOHANN KASPAR SPURZHEIM
This refers to the 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.
PHYSIOLOGY OR SOMATOTYPE
He is a German psychiatrist who studied philosophy and medicine at what university?
ERNST KRETSCHMER; University of Tubingen.
He attempted to correlate body build and constitution with characteristics of temperamental reactions and mentally.
ERNST KRETSCHMER