Remedial Chapter 4 and 5 quiz intro

It refers to the study of the role of the victim in the commission of a crime.

It is the scientific study of human behavior or man’s external manifestation in relation to criminality.

It is the process by which individual reduce the frequency of their offending behavior as the age increases.

Known as the “Mother of Criminals”.

It refers to an study showing the relationship between the physical built of a person to his personality structure and the type of offense he is most prone to commit

It is a proposal of a double male or super male syndrome. This theory held that the possession of an extra Y-chromosome causes males to be violent and aggressive.

A phenomenon that refers to the handling down of delinquent behaviors as socially learned and transferred from one generation to the next taking place mostly among disorganized urban areas.

In this theory of crime causation, mankind is viewed as manifestations of basically evil human nature reflecting either with the prince of darkness or an expression of divine wrath.

An attempt to determine intelligence and personality on the basis of the size and shape of the skull.

It involves the measurement of facial and other body characteristics as indicative of human personality.