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Flashcards by Mish Madison, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| theory | an assumption (or set of assumptions) that attempts to explain why or how things are related to each other |
| criminological theory | The explanation of criminal behavior, as well as the behavior of police, attorneys, prosecutors, judges, correctional personnel, victims, and other actors in the criminal justice process. |
| anomie | lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group. (textbook, table 3.1, p. 60) ...[M]ay evolve from conflict of belief systems and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community. (Wikipedia) |
| biological inferiority | Early theory that supposed criminals produced certain physical or genetic characteristics (stigmata) that were different from noncriminals |
| criminal anthropology | the study of criminal human beings |
| atavist | a person who reverts to savagery |
| Cesare Lombroso | Italian army doctor and university professor, published his theory of physical criminal type in 1876 and is associated with the field of criminal anthropology |
| Charles Darwin | English naturalist, geologist and biologist, authored The Descent of Man (1871) in which he suggested that some humans are not as highly evolved as others. |
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