JSB170 Study Guide - Final Guide: Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Atavism
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Week 4 exam revision individual explanations for crime. Cesare lombroso: habitual/professional criminals: crime as a career, prison is the university of crime , criminals of passion: committed criminal acts for reasons of intense love, honour, noble. Juridicial criminal: commit impulsive or careless acts that are criminal ambition, or patriotism (lombroso 1876: crimaloids: committed crimes because they are easily influenced, similar to born criminals but determined by environment, born criminals: biologically predisposed to crime. Lombroso also recognised the morally insane and hysteric criminal types (bartol 1999, 50) The criminal type in women and its atavistic origin cesare lombroso and william. Atavism* helps to explain the rarity of the criminal type in woman. The very precocity of prostitutes the precocity which increases their apparent beauty is primarily attributable to atavism. And in order to understand the significance and the atavistic origin of this anomaly, we have only to remember that virility was one of the special features of the savage women.
