Match the following criminological theories to their matching major concepts

1. Early Positivism
a. Genetic determism,
2. Constitutional Theories
b. Atavism, born criminals, criminaloids
3. Criminal Anthropology
c. Altruism, tribalism, survival of the gene pool
4. Sociobiology
d. Phrenology
5. Twin Studies and Heredity
e. Somatotyping, mesomorph, endomorph, ectomorph


1. *d
2. *e
3. *b
4. *c
5. *e

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