Deck 5: Positivism and Biopsychosocial Criminology

Question 1

Adoption studies are used in molecular genetics research to study antisocial behavior.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Studying families and generations to identify criminal propensity is known as

A) constitutional psychology
B) criminal anthropology
C) eugenics
D) positivism

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Atavistic criminals were considered to be

A) stupid criminals
B) born criminals
C) both A & B
D) none of the above

Answer 3

B

Question 4

This organization recognized BioPsychoSocial criminology with its own division in 2017?

A) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
B) Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis
C) American Society of Criminology
D) American Society of Criminal Justice

Question 5

Who is most commonly known as the "Father of Positivistic Criminology"?

A) Cesare Beccaria
B) Cesare Lombroso
C) Ronald Akers
D) Edwin Sutherland

Question 6

Who developed the concept of an atavistic criminal?

A) Charles Darwin
B) Cesare Lombroso
C) William Sheldon
D) Charles Goring

Question 7

Biosocial criminology seeks to explain crime using only biological and psychological characteristics and risk factors.

Question 8

Which criminologist worked with Cesare Lombroso studying female offenders?

A) William Sheldon
B) William Ferrero
C) Cesare Beccaria
D) none of the above

Question 9

The type of genetics where specific gene variants are linked with antisocial behavior

A) observational genetics
B) eugenics
C) molecular genetics
D) temporal genetics

Question 10

Who is regarded as the father of modern statistics?

A) A.M. Guerry
B) Cesare Beccaria
C) Adolphe Quetelet
D) Adolph Rupp

Question 11

All positivist theories share two common elements: empiricism and determinism.

Question 12

Which criminologist is commonly associated with the creation of somatotypes?

A) Thorsten Sellin
B) Walter Miller
C) William Sheldon
D) Elijah Anderson

Question 13

The view of criminals as a throwback to an earlier and more primitive evolutionary stage is known as

A) anomie
B) phrenology
C) atavism
D) all of the above

Question 14

Factors beyond individual's control where behavior is determined by something other than free will is referred to as:

A) classical
B) empiricism
C) skepticism
D) determinism

Question 15

Wrote the seminal work The Criminal Man

A) Cesare Lombroso
B) Charles Darwin
C) Cesare Beccaria
D) Richard Dugdale

Question 16

Knowledge discovered through observation and experience rooted in the collection of data is known as:

A) determinism
B) scientific method
C) empiricism
D) participant observation

Question 17

The positivism paradigm focuses on __________________; the rational choice paradigm focuses on _________________.

A) punishment; treatment
B) treatment; punishment
C) pain; pleasure
D) pleasure; pain

Question 18

Who has been credited for providing the intellectual tone for the shift from the rational choice paradigm to the positivistic paradigm?

A) Cesare Beccaria
B) Cesare Lombroso
C) William Ferrero
D) Charles Darwin

Question 19

Of the three types of somatotypes, which body form was found to be most common in delinquents?

A) mesomorph
B) endomorph
C) ectomorph
D) all of the above

Question 20

On the Origin of Species was the famous of work of

A) Charles Darwin
B) Cesare Lombroso
C) Cesare Beccaria D. Whilliam Sheldon

Question 21

CRISPR allows for genetically altering DNA structure to avoid hereditary diseases

Question 22

Testosterone has been found to be correlated with violent offending and aggression.

Question 23

The somatotypes were developed by William Sheldon.

Question 24

Quetlete and Guerry are credited with starting the Positivist school of criminal statistics.

Question 25

The positivist school was concerned with punishing offender for wrong doing.

Question 26

A.M. Guerry is known as the father of modern phrenology.

Question 27

Individuals who had characteristics of a mesomorphic body type showed higher levels of delinquency.

Question 28

The ectomorph is distinguished by their long skinny build.

Question 29

Dopamine, serotonin, and Monoamine Oxidase are molecular genetics found in the brain.

Question 30

The effects of the environment on brain structure and functioning is called brain plasticity.