Statistics

• How laws change over time. In the 18th centenary how many offences were there where death penalty could be given?

  200
• What act is homelessness illegal under?

  1824 vagrancy act
• What age is the age of criminal responsibility in the uk?

  10
• In Canada no person can be committed of an offence under the age of ?

  12
• What’s the age of criminal responsibility in bangladesh?

  9
• Serial killer John Wayne had xxy and killed and sexualply assaulted how many people?

  33
• Christiansen (1977) studied 3,586 twin pairs from the Danish islands and found concordance rates of 35% (MZ) and 13% (DZ) for male twins and 21% (MZ) and 8% (DZ) for female twins
• Adoption studies - what did hutch and mendings find?

  studies 14000 adopted children and found that a high proportion of boys with criminal records also had parents with criminal reccords
• Lombrosos study?


  Looked at 383 dead criminals and 3839 alive criminals and found 40% could be accounted for having atavistic charevteristics
• Sheldons correlation study?


  he looked at photos from both college students and delinquents and rayed them on a scale of 1-7 on how much they resembled the mesomorph body type. The delinquents had a higher average rating than college students 4.8-3.8
• Osbourne and west findings ?

  if a father had a criminal record 40 of the sons would acquire one before the age of 18
• Who were eyesnks participants?

  700 soldiers being treated for neurotic disorders in a hosptisl