Criminology UNIT 2 - 3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of physiological theories of criminality
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- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Physiological Theories to Explain Causes of Criminality
- Lombroso
- Strengths
- Lombroso was the first person to study crime scientifically
- Lombroso's research highlighted the importance of criminal records
- Lombroso's later work also took into account social and environmental factors
- Lombroso helped to develop a focus on preventing crime not just punishing it
- Limitations
- No other research has managed to prove a link between facial features and criminality
- Lombroso did not compare his group of criminals to a group on non-criminals
- Lombroso equarted non-western societies as criminals. This is a form of racism
- Strengths
- Sheldon
- Strengths
- Other studies have backed up Shledons findings such as Glueck and Glueck who found that 60% of offenders in their study were mesomorphs
- In Sheldon's study the most serious criminals were the ones with the most mesomorphic bodies
- Limitations
- Glueck and Glueck found that criminality was better explianed through a combonations of factors
- Individuals may have devloped mesomorphic bodeis for a wide range of reasons like for sport not just because they are criminal
- Sheldon does not account for the other body types who also commit crimes
- Mesomprphs are typically labelled as deliinquent so may be living up to the stereotype
- Strengths
- Lombroso
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