Describe the study of body types
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Answer: [key points to be made]
*Links personality to physique; function follows form
*Certain physical features associated with propensity for crime and delinquency
*Often described as constitutional psychology
* William Sheldon, 3 categories called somatotypes: ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph
*Sheldon claimed most delinquents are mesomorphs – athletic, muscular, aggressive, outgoing
*Sheldon's theory criticized for eugenic overtones – suggestion of biological devolution
*Methods of Sheldon also critiqued for lack of rigor, subjective interpretations
*Later studies tied body types to self-esteem, self-concept, and perhaps linked to acting out
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
One of the most effective call alternative strategies for relieving officer workload is the:
a. volunteer report service. c. telephone report investigators. b. telephone report unit. d. none of the above.
Modern police departments are open systems that take inputs from the environment, transform some of the inputs into public services, and send them back into the environment as outputs.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)