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The Father of Criminology.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
According to Lombroso this type of criminal comes from a lower form of life, a drawback to their apelike ancestors than to non-criminals in traits and disposition.
Born Criminal
Insane Criminal
Criminaloids
Criminal of passion
Their arm span is greater than their height, just like apes, which uses their forearms to propel themselves along the ground.
Born Criminal
Insane Criminal
Criminaloids
Criminal of passion
These type of criminals as classified by Lombroso inherited physical problems that impelled them into a life of crime.
Born Criminal
Insane Criminal
Criminaloids
Criminal of passion
These are the physical characteristics that distinguish born criminals from the general population and are throwbacks to animals or primitive people.
Atavistic anomalies
Anomie
Normlessness
Insane criminals
According to Lombroso, these are the physical features of creatures at an earlier stage of development, before they became fully human.
Anthropometry of criminals
Criminaloids
Atavistic stigmata
Criminal traits
The concept of defining a certain phenomenon using specific factors that have contributed the variation of its consequence.
Determinism
Cartographic School
Anomie
Classical School
In studying criminals, he integrated Comte’s positivism, Darwin Evolution and other pioneering studies of the relation of crime to the body.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
The following are the main proponents of the positivist school of thought in Criminology, EXCEPT;
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
Philosophically Lombroso changed the concept of free will with ______.
Biological traits
Determinism
Integrated concept
Anomalies
What is the tool used in determinism in finding out how it affect or causes a certain phenomena?
Scientific approach
Nominal approach
Individual approach
Selective approach
He emphasized the multiple causes of crime, including environmental causes that were not biologically determined.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
He pioneered of the case-study approach to criminology.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
He used the measurements of the physical features of prison inmates and concluded that criminal behavior correlated with specific bodily characteristics, particularly cranial, skeletal, and neurological malformations.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Enrico Ferri
Rafaelle Garofalo
The most significant contribution of positivism to the Criminology profession.
Used of Scientific approach in studying crimes
Denounce the Free will
Founding of the positivist school of criminology
Viewing cause of crime as a multi faceted factor
The branch of social science that uses the scientific method of the natural sciences and suggests that human behavior is a product of social, biological, psychological, or economic forces.
Classical approach
Positivist
Sociology
Cartographic school
The founder of Sociology, who started the application of the modern methods of physical sciences in the social sciences.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Auguste Comte
The positivist believed that human behavior is a function of____.
Human nature
Internal and external factor
Society
Changes of time
He argued that “there could be no real knowledge of social phenomena unless it was based on a positivist approach.”
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Auguste Comte
He argued that, criminal behavior is a normal part of all societies and that no society, can ever have complete uniformity of moral consciousness.
Auguste Comte
Emile Durkheim
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
Durkheim who is also credited as having contributed to the field of criminology believed that the criminal as an acceptable human being and one of the prices that a society pays for________.
Freedom
Development
Humanity
Deviancy
Durkheim argued that industrial societies are effective at producing EFFECTIVE CONTROLS to the behavior of individuals. What does he meant as a requirement to the effective control for human behavior.
Collective conscience
Punishment
Leaders
Vengeance
Durkheim claimed that industrial societies differ from nonindustrial ones. Individuals in industrial societies are more likely to exhibit what he called Anomie. What he mean by ANOMIE?
Lawful
Without norms
Without Boundaries
Control
A type of criminal according to Lombroso, who is not a criminal from birth but later become one as a product of some changes in the brain which causes defects on his ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Born Criminal
Insane Criminal
Criminaloids
Criminal of passion
Ferri, partly agreed with the biological determinant as basis for criminal behavior but he strongly believed on the importance of some factor that explains why people commit crimes.
Social, economic and political determinants
Psychological equivalents
Heredity
Environment
Garofalo in studying lombroso’s theory of atavistic stigmata, he found insufficient to explained criminal behavior, which he linked criminal behavior not to physical features but on the moral anomalies. What he mean by the term MORAL ANOMALIES
Social environment
Psychological equivalents
Inherited traits
Economic determinants
Why Enrico Ferri insisted that criminals should be held morally liable for the crimes they committed ?
Because they committed harm to society
Because they must have applied rational decision
Because they endanger the society
Because it is what the society agreed upon
According to Ferri, what the society needs in order to protect itself from criminals acts?
Police authorities
Criminal Law and policy
Government
Judges
To summed up the assumptions of the positivist thinkers, crimes is caused by multiple factors. The following are the factors the cited caused crimes, EXCEPT;
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
It emphasizes that human beings live in a social groups and that those groups and the social structure created influence behavior.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
Claimed that criminal behavior is determined by an individuals social environment and reject the notion of born criminal.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
It claimed that crime is a product of an abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes with the personality.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
It believed that criminals are anatomically, physiologically and genetically different from non-criminals.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
These theory focuses on an individual as the primary unit of analysis.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
It argued that the caused of crime is biological inferiority.
biological
psychological
sociological
bad laws
A systematic study on the causes of crime in society.
Criminal Justice
Criminology
Criminalogy
Criminal Law
It argued that an offender commits a wrongful act not because of his own free will but due to the influence of some external super power called demon‘ or devil‘.
Classical Criminology
Demonology
Positivist Criminology
Neo Classical Criminology
Crime and criminals are evidence of the fact that the individual was possessed by devil or demon.
Classical Criminology
Demonology
Positivist Criminology
Neo Classical Criminology
An ancient manner of trial in criminal cases.
Torture
Ordeal
Deception
Penitence
It assumed that most people were capable of rational calculation of gains and costs and that criminality was a choice.
Classical Criminology
Demonology
Positivist Criminology
Neo Classical Criminology
Laws were to be designed and enforced based on that principle.
Classical Criminology
Demonology
Positivist Criminology
Neo Classical Criminology
He argued that the law must apply equally to all, and that punishments for specific crimes should be standardized by legislatures, thus avoiding judicial abuses of power.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Auguste Comte
He claimed that people are rational beings who exercise free will in making choices.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Jeremy Bentham
It argued that punishment should fit the crime in such a way that the pain involved in potential punishment would be greater than any pleasure derived from committing the crime.
Classical Criminology
Demonology
Positivist Criminology
Neo Classical Criminology
In Criminology he is credited in the development of the reformation of the system to more humane and just society.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Jeremy Bentham
He presented to the world thru his book entitled" On Crimes and Punishment", a coherent and comprehensive design for an enlightened Criminal Justice System that was to serve the people rather than the monarchy.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Beccaria
Emile Durkheim
Jeremy Bentham
Beccaria's main argument relied on the premise that people freely choose what to do and that they (people) are responsible for the consequences of their actions which he called _____.
responsibility
duty
freewill
intent
Beccaria claimed that the crime problem could be traced not to bad people but to __________.
bad laws.
bad system
authorities
society
It viewed that people’s behavior is motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
Criminal Anthropology
Neo Classical School
Positivist School
Utilitarianism
In Beccarias assumptions, Laws should be used to maintain
Peace and order
Control People
Social Contract
Consensus
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