Earnest Hooton, an American anthropologist who worked on crime causation during the 1930s, contended that criminals were the products of:

a. environmental influences on organically inferior people.
b. gender structure.
c. discriminatory enforcement of the law.
d. cultures that had too little contact with Western societies.


Answer: a

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