Criminology Unit 2

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