1. What are the psychological causes of crime?
... that physical characteristics are related to social behaviour have been traced back to the Greek physician Hippocrates, who designed a group of typologies and physiques and tried to correlate them with character traits. This work was continued by Sheldon and Stevens (1942) and Sheldon et al (1949) who identified three basic body types; endomorphs, who are fat and soft; ectomorphs, who are ... that interact with certain environmental factors and thereby increase the likelihood that a person will act in a particular antisocial manner in a given situation" Eysenck believed that he could me...
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