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  • Criminal Physical Anthropology- study of relationship betweencriminalityand physical constitution of men.
  • Criminal Ecology- study ofrelationship between environment andcriminality
  • Fear of crime - refers to the fearof being a victim of crime asopposed to the actualprobability of being a victim ofcrime
  • Crime rate - is a measure of therate of occurrence of crimescommitted in a given area andtime
  • Crime science - is the study ofcrime in order to find ways toprevent it.
  • Sociology of law - refers to both a sub-discipline of sociology and an approachwithin the field of legal studies.
  • Physiognomy– Is the assessment of a personscharacter or personality from theirouter appearance especially theface or countenance. It wasintroduced by Swiss PastorJohann Kaspar Lavater
  • Phrenology– The study of the shape andprotuberance of the skull based onthe now discredited belief that theyreveal character and mentalcapacity. Introduced by GermanPhysician Franz Joseph Gall
  • Logomacy – A statement that wewould have no crime if we had nocriminal law, and that we couldeliminate all crime merely byabolishing all criminal laws.
  • Biometry – Measuring or calculatingof the probable duration of humanlife.
  • Autophobia – It is a morbid fear ofone’s self, or of being alone.
  • Anthropology – It is the sciencedevoted to the study of mankindand its development in relation to itsphysical, mental and cultural history.
  • Anthropometry – An identificationsystem based on physicalmeasurement. Introduced byAlphonse Bertillon (French)
  • Necrophilism – Morbid craving,usually of an erotic nature for deadbodies
  • Melancholia – A mental disordercharacterized by excessive broodingand depression of spirits. (Delusionsand Hallucinations)
  • Megalomania – A mental disorder inwhich the subject thinks himself greator exalted
  • Kleptomania – An uncontrollablemorbid propensity to steal.
  • Erotomania – A morbid propensity tolove or make love; uncontrollablesexual desire, or excessive sexualcraving by members of either sex.Kleptomania – An uncontrollablemorbid propensity to steal.
  • Psychosis -it is a severe type of mental illnesswhich incapacitates the individualtotally.✓contact with reality is totally lost. Thiscondition is synonymous with insanity
  • a mild type of mental illness whichlower the individual’s efficiency.✓contact with reality is intact whichmeans that he could still distinguishfacts from reality Neurosis