It provides both the juvenile and the guardian with a video and workbook to act as secondary study material. ... Studies show that this program is successful with 500 fewer teens arrested last year than in 2008. ... The Bio-Social theory examines the combined effects of biology, behavior and the environment on criminal behavior (Lily 2014) and the scared straight program works with the environment to scare its participants out of the crime lifestyle and hopefully pushes them into a straight pathway. ... Mark Lipsey, of the Vanderbilt Institute for public policy studies, concurred with past re...

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Phrenology is a study based on the outmoded idea that a persons mental faculties are indicated by the shape of his or her skull. ... Positivist criminology is not simply about biology or Darwinism; Lombroso only placed his emphasis on this because he was trained in medicine. ... After extensive statistical tests were performed on the data that had been collecte4d over the twelve-year period during the study, Hooten thought he discovered that the cause of criminal behavior or deviant behavior was due to the physical inferiority of the criminal compared to the non-criminal. ... The results of Ho...

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Cesare Lombroso was the first writer to link crime to human biology. ... None of these theories has been able to convincingly demonstrate that there is a casual relationship between biology and crime. ...

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The perpetrator was likely a student based on additional facts found about the crime that some skeletal remains were found in the biology lab which typically students or staff have access to. ... In a study done in the U.S by S. ...

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It has been established through research and various studies that genetics do influence criminal or antisocial behavior. ... The Social Structure theory questions that if biology is able to explain criminality, then why do crimes majorly occur in poor and underdeveloped neighborhoods? ...

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