Phrenology Quiz

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Which group of individuals played an important role in the rise of positivism in criminology by gathering and analyzing statistical data on crime and social factors during the nineteenth century?

French-Belgian statisticians (correct)

French-Belgian mathematicians

French-Belgian cartographers

French-Belgian astronomers

Who was the Belgian astronomer and mathematician who conducted independent analyses of the statistical data on crime gathered by France's Ministry of Justice?

Emile Durkheim

Karl Marx

Adolphe Quetelet (correct)

Auguste Comte

What concept did Adolphe Quetelet develop to describe an imaginary person that embodied statistical averages of various human characteristics?

Imaginary man

Statistical person

Average man (correct)

Ideal man

According to phrenology, criminal behavior was attributed to the overdevelopment of which region of the skull?

Frontal lobe Signup and view all the answers

Who popularized the idea that criminal behavior was due to physical abnormality rather than free will?

Cesare Lombroso Signup and view all the answers

According to phrenology, were the defects causing criminal behavior permanent or possible to address through treatment or self-regulation?

Both treatment and self-regulation Signup and view all the answers

What concept became popularized and used to explain criminality, poverty, and disability during the same era as phrenology?

Degeneracy Signup and view all the answers

According to Lombroso, criminals were distinct from noncriminals due to what?

Their abnormal physical and psychological characteristics Signup and view all the answers

What did Lombroso theorize about criminals?

They were a less evolved and more primitive species Signup and view all the answers

What did Lombroso refer to as stigmata?

Physical, psychological, and functional anomalies of criminals Signup and view all the answers

What did subsequent research refute about Lombroso's theory?

Many aspects of his theory Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, who believed that criminality was present in all racial and ethnic groups?

Hooten Signup and view all the answers

Which theory asserted that body type was hereditary and corresponded to differences in personality?

Somatotyping theory Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what did Sheldon find about delinquents and body type?

Delinquents were more likely to rate high on the mesomorph dimension Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what did sociologists introduce to the discipline of criminology?

Social disorganization, anomie, strain, learning, and control Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, who was the first to apply scientific methods to formulate explanations of crime?

Benjamin Rush Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, what was the key factor in the correlation between poverty and crime?

Social inequality Signup and view all the answers

According to the text, which of the following did Pinel describe in his 1801 A Treatise on Insanity?

All of the above Signup and view all the answers

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Which group of individuals played an important role in the rise of positivism in criminology by gathering and analyzing statistical data on crime and social factors during the nineteenth century?

Who was the Belgian astronomer and mathematician who conducted independent analyses of the statistical data on crime gathered by France's Ministry of Justice?

What concept did Adolphe Quetelet develop to describe an imaginary person that embodied statistical averages of various human characteristics?

According to phrenology, criminal behavior was attributed to the overdevelopment of which region of the skull?

Who popularized the idea that criminal behavior was due to physical abnormality rather than free will?

According to phrenology, were the defects causing criminal behavior permanent or possible to address through treatment or self-regulation?

What concept became popularized and used to explain criminality, poverty, and disability during the same era as phrenology?

According to Lombroso, criminals were distinct from noncriminals due to what?

What did Lombroso theorize about criminals?

What did Lombroso refer to as stigmata?

What did subsequent research refute about Lombroso's theory?

According to the text, who believed that criminality was present in all racial and ethnic groups?

Which theory asserted that body type was hereditary and corresponded to differences in personality?

According to the text, what did Sheldon find about delinquents and body type?

According to the text, what did sociologists introduce to the discipline of criminology?

According to the text, who was the first to apply scientific methods to formulate explanations of crime?

According to the text, what was the key factor in the correlation between poverty and crime?

According to the text, which of the following did Pinel describe in his 1801 A Treatise on Insanity?

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