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Criminal Justice Exam #2Criminology - correct answer ✔✔scientific study of crimes and criminals
Trial by Ordeal - correct answer ✔✔a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by
subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control
Determinism - correct answer ✔✔The idea that people's behavior is produced primarily by factors
outside of their willful control.
Positivism - correct answer ✔✔Based on determinism Which is the belief crime occurs as result of forces
beyond the control of the person
Rejects idea of free will
Cesare Lombroso - correct answer ✔✔the father of modern criminology
sought to understand the causes of crime focusing on biological influences
was against the classical system
Darwinian concept - correct answer ✔✔natural selection is the driving force behind evolution
William Sheldons theory - correct answer ✔✔he engaged in somatyping
claimed the human body was related to behavioral tendencies
1. endomorphy
2. mesomorphy
3. ectomorphy
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