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Criminal Atavism - ✔✔The idea that delinquents manifest physical anomalies that
make them biologically and physiologically similar to our primitive ancestors, savage
throwbacks to an earlier stage of human evolution.
biosocial Theory - ✔✔A theory of delinquency causation that integrates biologically
determined traits and environmental stimuli
Vulnerability Model - ✔✔Assumes there is a direct link between traits and crime; some
people are vulnerable to crime from birth
Differential Susceptibility Model - ✔✔the view that some people are predisposed to
environmental influences
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - ✔✔A disorder in which a child
shows a developmentally inappropriate lack of attention, impulsivity, and
hyperactivity
Neurological - ✔✔pertaining to the brain and nervous system structure
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, Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD) - ✔✔Damage to the brain itself that causes antisocial
behavior injurious to the individuals lifestyle and social adjustment
Conduct Disorder (CD) - ✔✔A disorder of childhood and adolescence that involves
chronic behavior problems, such as defiant, impulsive, or antisocial behavior and
substance abuse
Learning Disability (LD) - ✔✔Neurological dysfunction that prevents an individual
from learning to his or her potential
Arousal Theorists - ✔✔Delinquency experts who believe that aggression is a function of
the level of an individual's need for stimulation or arousal from the environment. Those
who require more stimulation may act in an aggressive manner to meet their needs
Contagion Effect - ✔✔delinquency spreads when kids copy the behavior of peers and
siblings
Evolutionary Theory - ✔✔Explaining the existence of aggression and violent behavior
as positive adaptive behaviors in human evolution; these traits allowed their bearers to
reproduce disproportionately, which has had an effect on the human gene pool.
Psychodynamic Theory - ✔✔Branch of psychology that holds that the human
personality is controlled by unconscious mental processes developed early in
childhood.
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