Most Important Terms in Criminology and in THEORIES OF

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Most Important Terms in Criminology and in THEORIES OF CRIME CAUSATION. New 2024 1.Erotomania - A morbid propensity to love or make love; uncontrollable sexual desire, or excessive sexual craving by members of either sex.

2.Inheritance - The transmission of physical characteristics, mental traits, tendency to disease, etc., from parents to off springs.

3.Kleptomania - An uncontrollable morbid propensity to steal.

4.Megalomania - A mental disorder in which the subject thinks himself great or exalted.

5.Necrophilia - Morbid craving, usually of an erotic nature for dead bodies.

6.Melancholia - A mental disorder characterized by excessive brooding and depression of spirits. (Delusions and Hallucinations) 7.Anthropometry - An identification system based on physical measurement.

8.Anthropology - It is the science devoted to the study of mankind and its development in relation to its physical, mental and cultural history.

9.Autophobia - It is a morbid fear of one’s self, or of being alone.

10.Logomacy -A statement that we would have no crime if we had no criminal law, and that we could eliminate all crime merely by abolishing all criminal laws.

11.Feebleminded - Lacking the normal mental powers; mentally deficient

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