atavistic form
- Created by: Bethany Cooling
- Created on: 31-05-18 21:46
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- Biological Explanations: Atavistic Form
- Lombroso's approach laid the profiling foundations
- Said criminals were 'genetic throwbacks'
- Criminals are biologically different to normal people
- Offenders lacked evolutionary development and cannot adjust to society
- Savage and untamed
- Inevitably turn to crime
- Physically different
- Biologically determined atavistic character traits
- Narrow, sloping brow; strong prominent jaw; high cheekbones; facial asymmetry
- Murderers have bloodshot eyes, curly hairs and long ears
- Sexual deviants have glinting eyes with swollen and fleshy lips
- 40% of criminals were accounted for by atavistic traits
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- Lombroso's approach laid the profiling foundations
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