Unit 2: Biological and Psychological Theories of Crime

Franz Joseph Gull suggested that a person's what could predict their criminal tendencies?

• Palm
• Skull
• Personality
• Genetics

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

• Emile Durkheim
• Hans J. Eysenck
• Cesare Lombroso
• Daniel M'Naughten

Mesomorphs have which of the following body types?

• Muscular and athletic
• Thin and frail
• large and soft
• average

William H. Sheldon argued that which body type was most likely to commit crimes?

• endomorphs
• ectomorphs
• dynomorphs
• mesomorphs

Somatotyping uses what to explain crime?

• personality
• hormones
• body type
• weather

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

• true
• false

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.

• true
• false

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

• true
• false

Hans J. Eysenck in the 1960s argued that crime was related to what?

• lack of self control
• personality traits
• brain tumors
• weather

What weather factor is consistently connected to crime in studies?

• precipitation
• storm warnings
• temperature
• cloud cover