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Criminology Unit 2: AC 2.1
Lombroso's theory - correct answer-born criminals

features of a born criminal - correct answer-deep eyes
large in size
thick lips
eyes close together

features of a criminal - correct answer-atavistic features that are heritable

William Sheldon - correct answer-Somatotypes

Which somatotypes is most likely to be a criminal ? - correct answer-Mesomorph

what did Sheldon fined a correlation between? - correct answer-body type and the crime

Jacobs Theory - correct answer-XYY Men

XYY theory - correct answer-suggests that crime may be attributed to chromosome
abnormality

supermales - correct answer-"XYY" Syndrome - acne, prone to violence, tall, prison

which set of chromosomes is over represented in prisons? - correct answer-Jacob et al
(1965) study suggested that men with XYY chromosomes are more aggressive and over
represented in prisons.

Which serial killer who killed and sexual assaulted over 33 men in us had the XYY
chromosomes? - correct answer-John Wayne Gacy

identical twins - correct answer-monozygotic twins

fraternal twins - correct answer-dizygotic twins

Christiansen (1977) - correct answer-studied 3586 twin pairs
concordance rate of;
35% monozygotic twins
13% dizygotic twins male
8% dizygotic twins female

Adoption studies - correct answer-Hutchinson and Mednick (1975)

Hutchinson and Mednick (1975) - correct answer-studied 14,000 adopted children and
discovered that a large proportion of boys with criminal convictions had biological parents
with convictions

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