Modern Biological Theories of Crime and Delinquency

question 33

Multiple Choice

Modern biological theories of crime and delinquency:

• A) propose that biological variables interact with sociological and psychological variables in criminal behavior
• B) have been largely supported as explanations of most crime and delinquency
• C) hypothesize that specific criminal behavior is inherited
• D) focus on essentially the same biochemical and genetic variation in body types, mental defects, and biological abnormalities as did earlier biological theories
• E) have become the dominant theoretical perspective in criminology

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