Week 1: Deviance and Positivism

Positivism is….

• Crime resulting from internal and/or external forces

• discovering a general explanation of crime using science

• using Scientific facts to formulate criminal justice policy

• All of the above

When was the Mental health act NSW first developed?

• 1990

• 1950

• 1970

• 2000

Which of the following are perspectives within the positivist school of thought

• Psychological, Biological, Sociological

• Sociological, Psychological, Cognitive

• Functional, Biological, Psychological

• Relativism, psychological, Sociological

The NSW Criminal Justice System incorporates a medical model that seeks to treat defects and departures from the norm.

• True

• False

The mental health act is designed to diagnose illnesses such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and heart defects

• True

• False

Who proposed a connection between body type and criminal offending?

• Goddard

• Lombroso

• Sheldon

• Dugsdale

Which body type was thought to be most associated with crime?

• Ectomorph

• Endomorph

• Mesomorph

• Monomorph

For Lombroso, criminal stigmata was the…

• Result of psychopharmacology

• Individual choice

• Physical and visible signs of criminality

• Result of traumatic experiences

How is the Mental Health Act embedded into the Criminal Justice System?

• It isn't

• To set out procedures to deal with issues of physical illness

• To set out procedures for dealing with issues of mental illness

• To determine which prison environment would be most suitable

Phrenology is…

• a pseudoscience that focuses on physical defects on the body

• a pseudoscience that focused primarily on human skull measurements

• a pseudoscience that focuses on facial features

• a pseudoscience that focuses on measurements of the hands and feet