Reviwer Flashcards
This term refers to a practice in the field of criminology that focuses on studying the relationship between criminal behavior and any external factors.
POSITIVISM
Its a formal idea or set of ideas that is Intended to explain how and why something happen
THEORY
.Its a severe mental deficiency and was considered, along with idiot, imbecile, and moron to be a relatively precise psychiatric classification.
FEEBLE-MINDED
He was a Swiss pastor who concluded that one could determine criminal behavior through an examination of a person’s eyes, ears, nose, chin, and facial shape.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
This theory is based on the belief that human behavior originated from the brain
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES
He was a German neuroanatomist and behavior originated in the brain. Physiologist who pioneered the study of the human brain as the source of mental faculties and who developed the practice of cranioscopy.
Franz Joseph Gall
He was the first to connect crime to human Evolution and was considered as the Father of Empirical (Scientific) Criminology.
CESARE LOMBROSO
This theory/practice is aimed to improve human hereditary traits by encouraging, through the distribution of incentives, “able” couples to reproduce.
POSITIVE EUGENICS
They were the first to suggest that a causal Relationship between hormones and criminal behavior exist.
SCHLAPP AND SMITH
Blood sugar levels, according to studies, revealed that it is associated with irritability, aggressive reactions and may Culminate in sexual offences, assaults and motiveless murder. What do you call this condition of having chronically reduced blood sugar caused by the excessive production of insulin.
Hypoglycemia
Preliminary studies indicate that the brains of Violent offenders and the brains of other individuals differ in both structure And function. A recent study concluded that behavioral problems may Originate in the HPA axis that connects the brain to the adrenal glands, which regulate the production of important hormones. HPA stands for____________.
Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal
According to Physique Theory, this type usually commits petty theft and fraud crime.
ASTHENIC
.He argued that the only way to solve crime Was by eliminating people who were morally, mentally, or physically “unfit,” or by segregating them in an environment apart from the rest of society.
Earnest Hooten
According to the Somatotype Theory, what body type is more likely to commit crime?
Mesomorph
Researchers have found out that higher levels of this hormone are associated with increased levels of violence and aggression, both in males and females. The male sex hormone being referred to is knowns as __________
Testosterone
Three classifications of body type according to William Sheldon.
1.endomorph
2.mesomorph
3. ectomorph