A physician who was studying the cadavers of executed criminals in an effort to scientifically determine whether law violators were physically different from people of conventional values and behavior. He believed that serious offenders were "born crimina
Cesare Lombroso
Some criminologists believe that the root cause of crime may be linked to what?
Mental or physical abnormality
What type of offenses are often driven by evolutionary and reproductive factors?
Violent offenses
T\F: These early research efforts shifted attention to brain functioning and personality as the keys to criminal behavior.
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chemical compounds which influence or activate brain functions
neurotransmitters
Neurological impairments to the prefrontal cortex reduces levels of what?
self-control
the branch of behavior theory most relevant to criminology
social learning
What has been coined to reflect the assumed link between physical and mental traits, the social environment, and behavior?
Biosocial theory
the principle that contains the moral aspect of the personality; the superego follows this principle
the conscience
Research shows that persistent abnormality in the way the brain metabolizes _____ can be linked to antisocial behaviors such as substance abuse.
