Chappy 9 Flashcards
(8 cards)
What are the two psychological assumptions regarding crime?
critiques?
Offender deficit: something wrong with the mind of offender
Discriminating traits: criminals differ from non-criminals (impulsivity and agression)
little emphasis on qualities of offenders
ignores importance of situational influences
binary is not reliable (more like a spectrum)
What is different about a criminal?
Need for excitement
social/psychological risk factors
need for material goods
Commuity psychology?
Levels of analysis:
Individuals - social problems defined as individual defecit
Small group level - social problems creates by group functioning beliefs
Organizational level - organizations have not performed their duties properly
Institutional/community level - social problems are created by institutions
Psychoanalytic theory?
Shoenfeld? Sigmund?
limitations?
Sigmund Freud: Stages of development - if stalled at one of these stages can cause detriments to behaviour
Shoenfeld: delinquent behaviour reflects a weak/defective/incomplete superego - unable to control o,a,p impulses developed in puberty
Theory is untestable and tautological
Eysenck’s theory of crime and personality
how characteristics are related to criminal behaviour
To prevent: deviance needs to be linked with pain or fear - delinquents did not naturally acrue this response
Demensions of personality: extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism
(research shows mixed results)
Social learning theory?
Modeling - bobo the doll
3 modes: family, subcultural influence, symbolic modeling
Crime and Mental illness ?
Crime rates are linked to mental illness - but mostly due to the lack of mental hospitals as an alternative to arrest
Antisocial personality disorder?
Do not learn from negative experiences because they do not have anxiety response when they should - no sufficient fear of consequence
accelerated/dispassionate business world = more modern day psychopaths that can go to work/gain influence
