- Criminaloids- environment causes crime
- Born criminals- Atavists 
- Insane- Mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicts
- Crimes incited by passion

Cesare Lombroso Categories of criminals

- By attributing crime to these throwbacks it hurt the search for other forms of crime, created punitive punishment, hurt the biological school since they need to be careful and excluding woen from crime created a lack of reasearch in that area

Negative Effects of Lombroso Ideas

- Categorized people by type of body
   - Endomorph
   - Mesomorph
   - Ectomorph

Cesare Lombroso Types of Bodies

- Conduct autopsies of inmates and of living inmates and found certain body similarities between them all
- Atavism- genetics of a criminal are alike to previous generations more specifically the more violent primitive versions of man
- Women are less likely to be criminals and those who are criminals are alike to ment (the masculinity hypothesis)
- Also created categories of criminals

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- Use of the scientific method (This is why Criminology uses the scientific method when conducting research)
- People are not responsible for their action, biology forces are the main cause of crime

Positivism Definition

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

Criminology (The Justice Series)

Siegel, L. J. (2000). Criminology. Criminology: Siegel, Larry J: Free Download, Borrow. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. https://archive.org/details/criminology00sieg. 

Criminology

Cesare Lombroso Contributions to Positivism

- Biology is at least a partial factor in criminality whether its the independent variable or a co-factor

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