Exam 5: Positivism and Biopsychosocial Criminology

Who has been credited for providing the intellectual tone for the shift from the rational choice paradigm to the positivistic paradigm?

Studying families and generations to identify criminal propensity is known as

Adoption studies are used in molecular genetics research to study antisocial behavior.

Dopamine, serotonin, and Monoamine Oxidase are molecular genetics found in the brain.

Who developed the concept of an atavistic criminal?

Which criminologist is commonly associated with the creation of somatotypes?

The type of genetics where specific gene variants are linked with antisocial behavior

All positivist theories share two common elements: empiricism and determinism.

Quetlete and Guerry are credited with starting the Positivist school of criminal statistics.

The view of criminals as a throwback to an earlier and more primitive evolutionary stage is known as

This organization recognized BioPsychoSocial criminology with its own division in 2017?

CRISPR allows for genetically altering DNA structure to avoid hereditary diseases

Atavistic criminals were considered to be

Knowledge discovered through observation and experience rooted in the collection of data is known as:

Biosocial criminology seeks to explain crime using only biological and psychological characteristics and risk factors.

Which criminologist worked with Cesare Lombroso studying female offenders?

Who is regarded as the father of modern statistics?

The positivist school was concerned with punishing offender for wrong doing.

Wrote the seminal work The Criminal Man

Of the three types of somatotypes, which body form was found to be most common in delinquents?