FSC100 MIDTERM REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
1. atavists insisted that criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
2. positivists claimed that. crime is the product of social causes
3. recidivism the act of repeating an offence
4. Cesare Lombroso -(1835-1909)
-atavist and practicing psychiatrist
-father of modern criminology
-argued that criminals were born deviant based on the size and shape of their
bodies
-visited hospitals, asylums, prisons, took measurements, collected writings and
drawings, took photographs, etc.
5. Alexandre Lacas- -(1843-1924) was a positivist
sagne -father of forensic medicine
-pointed to charts and maps and linked crime rates with geography, the behaviour
of criminals depended on their social environment
6. Joseph Vacher -the French Ripper
-executed in 1898 for the murders of more than 23 people
taken into custody of a failed abduction. When incarcerated, confessed to several
murders
-Lacassagne attended the trial, researched Vacher's life, interviewed him, wrote
extensively on details of the case, and provided testimony
7. Alphonse -(1853-1914)
Bertillon -created the first system of physical measurements combined with photography
and record keeping that police could use to define recidivist criminals
-concept of mugshots
-emphasized on creating an immediate identification system rather than under-
standing the inherent morphology of criminals
, -this system is
referred to as
signaletics (or the
Bertillonage
method)
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Answers
1. atavists insisted that criminals were born to commit crimes due to biological deviance
2. positivists claimed that. crime is the product of social causes
3. recidivism the act of repeating an offence
4. Cesare Lombroso -(1835-1909)
-atavist and practicing psychiatrist
-father of modern criminology
-argued that criminals were born deviant based on the size and shape of their
bodies
-visited hospitals, asylums, prisons, took measurements, collected writings and
drawings, took photographs, etc.
5. Alexandre Lacas- -(1843-1924) was a positivist
sagne -father of forensic medicine
-pointed to charts and maps and linked crime rates with geography, the behaviour
of criminals depended on their social environment
6. Joseph Vacher -the French Ripper
-executed in 1898 for the murders of more than 23 people
taken into custody of a failed abduction. When incarcerated, confessed to several
murders
-Lacassagne attended the trial, researched Vacher's life, interviewed him, wrote
extensively on details of the case, and provided testimony
7. Alphonse -(1853-1914)
Bertillon -created the first system of physical measurements combined with photography
and record keeping that police could use to define recidivist criminals
-concept of mugshots
-emphasized on creating an immediate identification system rather than under-
standing the inherent morphology of criminals
, -this system is
referred to as
signaletics (or the
Bertillonage
method)
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