CRIM1001 EXAM (ALL CONTENT
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nihilistic relativism - ANSWERcrude rejections of positivism which, in effect, deny the
existence of a reality that is 'out there' and which might be studied and about which
claims can be made.
Who considered the law to be a set of god-given doctrines? - ANSWERThomas
Aquinas
William H. Sheldon - ANSWERThe study of body shapes and types as predictors of
crime
Cesare Lombroso - ANSWERThe study of facial features as predictors of crime
Somatyping - ANSWERThe categorisation of different body types and the belief in
incapacitation for inferior body types would produce a safer society
bio-phobia - ANSWERwhat might be seen as something close to an automatic
hostility to any suggestion that biology could have much, if anything, to offer in terms
of explaining human behaviour.
over-socialised gaze - ANSWERthose view that in focusing on the environmental
influences on behaviour tend to ignore or deny the role of biology altogether.
genetic fatalism - ANSWERa tendency to interpret any mention of the role of
genetics as implying inevitability rather than influence (i.e. to assume that to talk of
biological influence is to be deterministic).
What are the differences between positivist and classical criminology? -
ANSWERClassical criminology focuses on the punishment for an offence while
positivist criminology favours treatment of the offender's biological or psychological
deviance; Classical criminology focuses more on the offence while positivist
criminology focuses more on the offender; Classical criminology considers offenders
to be free willed and rational while positivist criminology believes offenders are
predetermined to be criminal
Who was Robert Francois Damiens? - ANSWERA man, killed for attempting to
murder the King; The subject of words penned by Casanova
Punishments according to Beccaria... - ANSWERshould only be severe enough to
deter offending
What phsyical traits did Lombroso believe made criminal offenders different from
non-offenders? - ANSWERAbnormal length of the limbs and generally unusual
FROM QUIZZES)CORRECT 100%
nihilistic relativism - ANSWERcrude rejections of positivism which, in effect, deny the
existence of a reality that is 'out there' and which might be studied and about which
claims can be made.
Who considered the law to be a set of god-given doctrines? - ANSWERThomas
Aquinas
William H. Sheldon - ANSWERThe study of body shapes and types as predictors of
crime
Cesare Lombroso - ANSWERThe study of facial features as predictors of crime
Somatyping - ANSWERThe categorisation of different body types and the belief in
incapacitation for inferior body types would produce a safer society
bio-phobia - ANSWERwhat might be seen as something close to an automatic
hostility to any suggestion that biology could have much, if anything, to offer in terms
of explaining human behaviour.
over-socialised gaze - ANSWERthose view that in focusing on the environmental
influences on behaviour tend to ignore or deny the role of biology altogether.
genetic fatalism - ANSWERa tendency to interpret any mention of the role of
genetics as implying inevitability rather than influence (i.e. to assume that to talk of
biological influence is to be deterministic).
What are the differences between positivist and classical criminology? -
ANSWERClassical criminology focuses on the punishment for an offence while
positivist criminology favours treatment of the offender's biological or psychological
deviance; Classical criminology focuses more on the offence while positivist
criminology focuses more on the offender; Classical criminology considers offenders
to be free willed and rational while positivist criminology believes offenders are
predetermined to be criminal
Who was Robert Francois Damiens? - ANSWERA man, killed for attempting to
murder the King; The subject of words penned by Casanova
Punishments according to Beccaria... - ANSWERshould only be severe enough to
deter offending
What phsyical traits did Lombroso believe made criminal offenders different from
non-offenders? - ANSWERAbnormal length of the limbs and generally unusual
