Freud argued that which part of our personality held our unconscious urges, desires, and drives?
ID
Franz Joseph Gull suggested that a person's what could predict their criminal tendencies?
Skull
The Behavioral Science Unit (BSI) is a part of what agency?
FBI
One study examined 1,000 youths in Philadelphia and found that high levels of what in the body was associated with higher crime rates?
Lead
True or false projects like the Human Genome Project may help us better understand why people commit crimes.
True
Hans J. Eysenck in the 1960s argued that crime was related to what?
Personality traits
One of the first instances when the "not guilty by reasons of insanity" defenses was used involved which defendant.
Daniel M'Naughten
True or false most criminologists and criminalists think that profiling does not produce any usable information.
False
True or false the substantial- capacity test states that an individual should have the mental capacity to understand that an act is wrong or conform his or her behavior to the law
True
True or false the hormone testosterone has been linked to aggression.
True
Who suggested that a person's physical characteristics could predict whether they were criminal or not?
Cesare Lombroso
True or false Harold G. Grasmick suggested that people with low self-control are drawn to risk-taking behaviors that are exciting and dangerous.
True
Somatotyping uses what to explain crime?
Body type
True or false researchers have rules out pollution as a potential cause of crime.
False
William H. Sheldon argued that which body type was most likely to commit crimes?
Mesomorphs