Unit 2: Biological and Psychological Theories of Crime

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What suggested that a person could predict their criminal tendencies? Options: Palm, Skull and Brain, Personality, Genetics

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Skull and Brain

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Who suggested that a person's physical characteristics could predict whether they were criminal or not?

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Cesare Lombroso

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Somatotyping uses what to explain crime?

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body type

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Projects like the Human Genome Project may help us better understand why people commit crimes.

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true

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Phrenology suggested that by seeing or feeling a person's skull, we could have insight into their personality and which characteristics were over or under developed.

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true

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Criminologists do not believe that biology has any effect on crime.

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false

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Hans J. Eysenck in the 1960s argued that crime was related to what? Options: lack of self control, personality traits, brain tumors, weather

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personality traits

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What weather factor is consistently connected to crime in studies? Options: precipitation, storm warnings, temperature, cloud cover

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temperature

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Who argued that which part of our personality held our unconscious urges, desires, and drives?

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Freud

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Researchers have ruled out pollution as a potential cause of crime. True or False?

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False