Criminal Behavior – Positivist School – Flashcards

The _____ school wanted scientific proof of the causes of crime. 1) Classical 2) Neo-classical 3) Positivist 4) Biological

Which of the following theorists is often called the "father of modern criminology?" 1) Bentham 2) Beccaria 3) Howard 4) Lombroso

Lombroso argued that criminals were _____ or throwbacks to an earlier form of evolutionary life. 1) Retrospective 2) Animalistic 3) Atavistic 4) Criminoloids

His study of 3000 English convicts concluded that there were no significant differences between the criminals and non-criminals except for stature and body weight. 1) Ferri 2) Garofalo 3) Lombroso 4) Goring

Which of the following is not one of Sheldon's body types? 1) Endomorphy 2) Ectomorphy 3) Mesomorphy 4) Musclarmorphy

_____ concluded that because youths came from parents who were delinquent in very much the same way that the boys were delinquent, the factors that produce delinquency where inherited. 1) Sheldon 2) The Gluecks 3) Darwin 4) Sampson and Laub

_____ usually is credited as the first person to test the IQs of prison inmates. 1) Freud 2) Binet 3) Goddard 4) Bennett

The study of _____claimed that inheritance could explain the presence of simple and complex human behavioral characteristics. 1) Eugenics 2) Sociology 3) Criminology 4) Psychology

_____'s evolutionary thesis represents one of the most profound theories of all time. 1) Sheldon 2) Darwin 3) Einstein 4) Newton

Reformers, called _____ Progressives argued that the system should be arranged not to punish offenders but rather rehabilitate them. 1) Progressives 2) Prohibitionists 3) Protagonists 4) Correctors