Biosocial Theory Of Crime Case Study

Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), Raffaele Garofalo (1852–1934) and Enrico Ferri (1856–1929) indicated certain physical traits or characteristics explain the criminal behavior. Biosocial theory is about how criminal behavior is biological and psychological. The study says that the reason why individuals commit a crime is that they have some type of physical or psychological traits. During the 1970s and 1980s, the biology of crime was one of the focus and it was created to explain why criminal do not learn from their mistakes.
On one hand, Cesare Lombroso is a professor of medicine at the University of Turin, whose manuscript L 'Uomo Delinquente (The Criminal Man) that talks about the direct relationship between biology and crime. Lombroso talks about how criminal have certain physical traits or characteristic such as sharp teeth, long fingers, and an abnormal amount of body hair (MCY 2010). He claims that criminals are atavisms meaning they biologically look like early human evolutions and they lack free will (MCY 2010). Therefore, they are not morally responsible for their actions because they have no control of it, but also name other criminals such as “the insane criminals, the epileptic criminals, and the occasional criminal who for no biological reasons but by the influence of

C. Ray Jeffery explains what contributes to criminal behavior, and he says that sociological, psychological, and biological characteristics work together to produce criminal behavior. He says that two things that cause certain forms of behavior are that individuals are born with certain biological and psychological characteristics. Jeffery says that poverty plays a big role in the development of individuals and poverty indirectly causes criminal behavior. He says that the diet and exposure to pollutants harm the brain because chemicals are transformed into the brain from biochemical to neurochemical compounds (Williams and McShane