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    Crime and Deviance

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    =bl&ots=Z8fdHbTYgk&sig=wUxiOG0aEnIwPhXWi-viHNl0fgo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ePgdT7r0Mo7HtAbF15nZDA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lemert%201967%20primary%20and%20secondary&f=false (Accessed date 19/01/2012). Lombroso (1835-1909) The Criminal Body: Lombroso and the anatomy of deviance. London: Routledge. Plummer (1979) Cited in Haralambos‚ M. (2004). Sociology: Themes and perspectives (7th eds). London: Collins. Sheldon‚ W. and Glueck (1956) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cw

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    INTRODUCTION Criminological theories have rarely been concerned with the analysis of female criminality. Typically criminologists have either been content to subsume discussion of women offenders under ‘general’ theories‚ that is to say they have implicitly assumed the female is dealt with in discussing the male‚ or they have dealt with them exceptionally briefly in the way that other ‘marginal’ or ‘special’ categories are treated. The reason offered for this overwhelming lack of interest is that

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    and/or physical inferiority which causes them to commit criminal acts. In specific‚ Lombroso ’s Theory of Criminal Type categorizes people as potential criminals by the physical characteristics they possess. Lombroso ’s Theory specifically believes that criminals can be identified through skeletal characteristics such as wide shoulders‚ crispy hair‚ flattened nose and so on (Bura‚ n.d.). Despite the criticism of Lombroso ’s theory‚ the majority of biological criminologists agree that the underlying cause

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    The following assignment focuses upon the biological approach to criminal behaviour and sough to explain the notion of environmental and social influence on offenders. It is‚ however essential to investigate the theory of how biological analysis is effective in criminality. Also the impact on society and the minds of the offenders is worth examining. This essay will also include the development of biological theories that have been used for centuries as well as the criticisms of those theories.

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    Machiavelli’s The Prince is undoubtedly his most famous work‚ the book that gave "Machiavellian" to the English language as a synonym for "deceitful." During his service in the Florentine government‚ he had had the opportunity to deal diplomatically with kings and princes from all parts of Europe. The early 15th century the time of Niccole Machiavelli‚ Italy was anarchy of states. It was divided into thirty principalities each ruled by a prince. It was a turbulent time of conflict and contradiction

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    The Italian Renaissance was a time when people prospered‚ in which artists‚ Inventors‚ and scientists founded the concepts that helped create the modern world as we know it. Although‚ behind the great minds of the Renaissance were powerful families‚ in Florence‚ and Rome. One family helped fuel the Renaissance with their power and wealth‚ and another corrupt and power hungry. The Medici’s were one of the most powerful and wealthiest family in Florence due to the Medici Bank. They would lend money

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    physical characteristics of criminals and how this attributes to their criminal behaviour. Lombroso did not agree that criminal behaviour was taught or learned. He argued that criminals were born and were no more than sufferers of atavism; evolutionary throwbacks‚ and could be distinguished by their physical features‚ for instance their large jaws‚ ears‚ or their unnatural amount of fingers and toes (Lombroso‚ 1911). Although this did prove true within his study‚ differences between criminals and non-criminals

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    1) Physiological theories In his book L’Uomo Delinquente Cesare Lombroso argued that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being. He said there were several characteristics‚ such as large jaws‚ extra fingers and monobrows which were clear signs that someone was a criminal. Lombroso said that we can easily identify who the criminals‚ so we should remove them from normal society and we can therefore remove any criminals. Evaluation Research has found that

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    P3- Unit 31 Criminology. Within criminology there different theoretical theories which affect the way the crime is explained. These are classicist and positivist‚ realist and interactionist theory. Classism: Each person has the intelligence to make a sensibly choose between committing a crime or not by suggesting that everyone has control over their own actions this means whenever someone commits a crime they are immediately and fault. Classism suggests human intelligence allows us to make a rational

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    job to make them good. To change the ways they are set in. Positivists would believe that this is in the persons DNA to embezzle money. They never really had a choice it is something that they have to do it was something they needed to do . Ceaser Lombroso believed that crimes was not caused because of free malicious intent‚ he believed it was caused because of a persons biology or their environment (Wilson and Herrnstein‚ 2005‚ p.74). Classical School of Thought ​On the other side of the schools

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