He called the "born Criminal" a being that was predestined for criminal behavior due to his physical configuration. ... Another point the school made was that there were four classes of criminals: born (atavists), insane, occasional (criminaloids-with some atavistic characteristics and some environmental factors) and passion. ... The "born criminal" was easily identified by certain characteristics known as "stigmata". ... He measured the physical characteristics of each person, such as weight, height, nose height, ear length and head height. ... The results of Hootens studies led him to belie...

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They say that genetically inherited characteristics either directly cause or predispose them towards deviance. ... In his book L"Umo Delinquente (1876) he argues that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being and claimed to have identified a number of genetically determined characteristics which were often found in criminals. ... Eysenk (1977) argues that there is link between genetically based personality characteristics and criminal behaviour. ... Sociologists tend to dismiss biological theories of deviance, arguing that any association between physica...

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The economic and social characteristics of the children appear to be carefully-chosen in order to provide the largest possible representation of demographics which may watch the show. ... Some people were thought to have characteristics which predisposed them for crime -- attributes such as a slack jaw and droopy eyes. ... If you can denounce a populace for their physical characteristics, by labeling them, oppression of that dehumanized group is likely. ...

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The Department of Justice of Canada defines hate crimes as "crimes in which the offender is motivated by a characteristic of the victim that identifies the victim as a member of a group towards which the offender feels some animosity" (Julian V Roberts, 1995). ... Hate crimes are triggered by an individual's or group's race, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability. ... Mitigating factors are what the defence can use to advocate for a lesser charge and include lack of a prior criminal record, culpability o...

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Some specific forms result from brain injury due to physical trauma or drug effects. ... In the same way that people inherit genes that control height and eye color, biosocial theorists believe that antisocial behavior characteristics may be inherited (Siegel & Senna, 1991, p.96). ... Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1974, p. 2) identified a number of personality characteristics that characterize delinquents:  Self-assertiveness  Defiance  Extroversion  Suspicion  Defiance ...

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Research suggests that the most promising school violence prevention programs involve at least some of seven characteristics, including a comprehensive approach, starting early and involving parents. ... Seventy-one percent of teachers observed less physical violence among the students that participated. Violence-prevention literature and experts consistently associate at least seven characteristics with promising school based violence prevention programs: 1} A comprehensive approach 2} an early start, long term commitment ...

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Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminal...

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Offenders, who commit violent rapes in order to satisfy their sexual needs and who cause a huge number of problems, physical and psychological, to their victims, have to be executed. ... For those who stand strongly for capital punishment, life imprisonment without parole would be a satisfactory substitute of death penalty as the criminal, who spend a whole lifetime in prison will be given the chance to regret his/her crime and will continuing hoping to get out of prison even the last moments before his/her physical death. ... A pretty characteristic example is that of the words of a b...

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If one takes drinking too far in a marital relationship, violence, physical and verbal abuse, and eventually divorce will almost definitely result. ... In one study of teen suicide, drug and alcohol abuse was the most common characteristic of those who attempted suicide; 70 percent of these teenagers frequently used alcohol and/or other drugs."" ...

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Here he started to receive physical and mental abuse from the nuns and other boys. ... As a child he went through constant physical and mental attacks from his parents which lead to his violent nature he developed in the future. ... The doctor found that Dick "shows fairly typical characteristics of what would psychiatrically be called a severe character disorder. ...

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During the time of the Jim Crow era, the Italian physician and criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) began to identify patterns of criminality based on the physical appearances of individuals. Lombroso influenced the academic stance on physical appearance being associated with behavior; in this case, criminality (Carmen, 2009, p. 666). ... Despite training to avoid discrimination, officers may still rely on cultural stereotypes and act on their perceptions of a person's characteristics (such as age, race or gender)("Racial Profiling," 2013). ...

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Sex is dependant on your anatomy and hormones in the body whereas gender is the role in which society has created which describes the characteristics that society believe we should have. ... " He then went on to collect data for male offenders, looking for physical abnormalities such as a third nipple, however, having found little abnormalities on women he finally stated that unlike men, women were not biologically born criminals. ...

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Likewise, there are also characteristics that protect young people and reduce the likelihood that they will engage in problem behaviors, even in the presence of risk. ... It helps them by exposing them to conditions that may have been lacking in their lives,like self discipline and physical conditioning. ...

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Deviance And Social Contol The Theory of Differential Association and Gangs Theory is a systematic explanation of a phenomenon; it organizes known facts and allows us to predict new facts, and permits us to exercise a degree of control over the phenomenon. One important theory was first off...

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In September of 1994, fellow gang members in Chicago executed Robert Sandifer, Jr. At the time, police were looking for Sandifer in connection with the shooting death of a fourteen-year-old girl. At the time of his death, Robert Sandifer was eleven years old. (Sadler 16) These stories fuel the publ...

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Likewise, there are also characteristics that protect young people and reduce the likelihood that they will engage in problem behaviors, even in the presence of risk. ... It helps them by exposing them to conditions that may have been lacking in their lives,like self discipline and physical conditioning. ...

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