AC2.1 - Biological theories of crime: Physiology

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STIGMATA

The physical blemishes that indicated a person has failed to evolve.

(Handle shaped ears, shifty eyes.)

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THROWBACK

Term used for someone who has failed to evolve - a throwback to an earlier time.

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ATAVISTIC

The term used to suggest someone is primitive. 

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SHELDON

The physiological theorist who suggested crime is a result of body shapes which relate to different personality traits.

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SOMOTYPES

This term is used to refer to the three body types.

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ENDOMORPH

This body type is fat and soft.

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ECTOMORPH

This body type is thin and fragile. 

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MESOMORPH

This body type is muscular and hard, the most criminal of the somotypes, making up 60% of the deviant population. 

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