Which statement would a positivist criminologist NOT agree with?
A) The suspect's head is shaped oddly, and we believe he is a criminal due to this abnormality.
B) The death penalty scares me, and therefore it scares criminals, keeping us safer than if we abolished it.
C) My hypothesis regarding the use of cannabis by teenagers as it relates to their criminal activity and sexual promiscuity was not supported by the data, but I believe I'm right and will ignore the data.
D) We believe that crime is on the rise due to the social deprivation we have measured in this area, and we know social deprivation is correlated with higher crime rates.
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