FSC100
MIDTERM
REVIEW EXAM
(48 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS)
atavists - answer insisted that criminals
were born to commit crimes due to biological
deviance
positivists - answer claimed that. crime is
the product of social causes
recidivism - answer the act of repeating an
offence
Cesare Lombroso - answer -(1835-1909)
,-atavist and practicing psychiatrist
-father of modern criminology
-argued that criminals were born deviant
based on the size and shape of their bodies
-visited hospitals, asylums, prisons, took
measurements, collected writings and
drawings, took photographs, etc.
Alexandre Lacassagne - answer -(1843-1924)
was a positivist
-father of forensic medicine
-pointed to charts and maps and linked crime
rates with geography, the behaviour of
criminals depended on their social
environment
Joseph Vacher - answer -the French Ripper
-executed in 1898 for the murders of more
than 23 people
taken into custody of a failed abduction.
When incarcerated, confessed to several
murders
-Lacassagne attended the trial, researched
Vacher's life, interviewed him, wrote
, extensively on details of the case, and
provided testimony
Alphonse Bertillon - answer -(1853-1914)
-created the first system of physical
measurements combined with photography
and record keeping that police could use to
define recidivist criminals
-concept of mugshots
-emphasized on creating an immediate
identification system rather than
understanding the inherent morphology of
criminals
-this system is referred to as signaletics (or
the Bertillonage method)
-changes in measurements created issues
with identifying criminals correctly
-the Bertillon system was used for over 30
Years, fingerprinting replaced this system
Edmond Locard - answer -(1877-1966)
-criminalistics: the science of solving crime,
was considered forensic science by the
1970's
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