What social and historical factors gave rise to these theories?

What will be an ideal response?


This new interest in science gave rise to the three key forerunners to the early biological theories of criminal behavior. First, the early psychiatric work on moral insanity had an impact on biological positivism. Second, the emergence of physiognomy and phrenology preceded Lombroso’s work on the criminal man; physiognomy and phrenology are the belief that behavior can be predicted through a person’s physical appearance. Third, the emerging evolutionary perspective had a huge impact on the early biological positivists, especially the work of Charles Darwin.

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a. True b. False

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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