Naturalistic theories and spiritualistic explanations

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1. Although his biological explanation of crime is considered simple and naïve today, Lombroso made significant contributions that have no continuing impact on criminology.

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2. Lombroso classified criminals into four major categories: (1) born criminals or people with atavistic characteristics; (2) insane criminals, including idiots, imbeciles, and paranoiacs as well as epileptics and alcoholics; (3) occasional criminals or criminaloids, whose crimes are explained primarily by opportunity, although they, too, have innate traits that predispose them to criminality; and (4) criminals of passion, who commit crimes because of anger, love, or honor and are characterized by being propelled to crime by an "irresistible force".

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3. The most insignificant factor of the classical school of thought is its emphasis on the individual criminal as a person who is capable of calculating what he or she wants to do.

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4. Sheldon (1949) classified girls' physiques by measuring the degree to which they possessed a combination of three different body components: endomorphy, mesomorphy, and ectomorphy.

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5. The legitimacy and practical values of IQ testing were given great support when the U.S. Navy Psychological Corps decided to use this method to determine who was fit for military service in World War I (Goddard, 1927).

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6. Like Lombroso, who gave more attention to biological factors than to social ones, Ferri gave more emphasis to the interrelatedness of social, economic, and political factors that contribute to crime.

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7. The laws passed under the influence of the eugenics movement were not restricted to sterilization and psychosurgery, although these were the two most brutal and repressive measures sponsored.

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8. Lombroso's legacy of positivism was continued and expanded by the brilliant career and life of a fellow Italian, Enrico Ferri.

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9. Lombroso thought that ears of unusual size, sloping foreheads, excessively long arms, receding chins, and twisted noses were indicative of physical characteristics found among noncriminals.

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10. Naturalistic theories and spiritualistic explanations have their origin in the ancient world in common.

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