Crim for Schools Week 3

A positivist approach to criminology looks at qualitative data.

• True

• False

Positivist data involves testing a....

• hippopotamus

• hypochondriac

• hypotenuse

• hypothesis

qualitative data is about interpreting views and opinions

• True

• False

What type of research focuses on views and opinions?

• interactionist

• interpretivist

• international

• interdisciplinary

What do Positivist or Biological Criminologists focus on?

• Criminals

• Punishment

True or false: Positivist (biological) criminologists focus on qualitative data.

• True

• False

With which period of history do we associate positivist (biological) criminologists?

• Stone Age

• Georgian

• Post-war

• Victorian

Which writer's work influenced the biological (positivist) criminologists?

• Dawkins

• Dickens

• Darwin

• Defoe

The study of the size and shape of the head is known as...

• phenomenology

• phrenology

• postmodernism

• craniology

Which Italian do we associate with the Biological School of Criminology?

• Lombroso

• Da Vinci

• Beccaria

• Balboa