Endomorph Definition

Mesomorph

Ectomorph

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

Ohio State University, Columbus

- 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

Cesare Lombroso Contributions to Positivism

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

Criminology (The Justice Series)

- 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

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