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Learn about the three major psychological theories of crime: psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive. Explore how personality, intelligence, and mental disorders are related to criminal behavior.
6 lut 2024 · Major psychological theories of crime include the trait theory of personality and theories of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and cognitive psychology. Psychoanalysis emphasizes motivation and evil human nature, and holds that sexual and aggressive instincts are the fundamental causes of crime.
The Psychology of Crime. Psychologically-based criminologists explain criminal behavior as the consequence of individual factors, such as negative early childhood experiences, and inadequate socialization, which results in criminal thinking patterns and/or incomplete cognitive development.
Psychological perspectives and theories on criminal behavior are numerous and distinct. They include, but are not limited to, biological, neurological, cognitive, developmental, personality, and integrated approaches.
23 paź 2017 · This chapter outlines two contemporary psychological theories of crime: moral reasoning theory; and the social information-processing approach to explaining crime. It considers theories of three types of serious offending: interpersonal violence, sexual offending and arson.
3 gru 2017 · Gottfredson and Hirschi developed their self-control theory of crime to explain why some people are more at risk for criminal behavior than others. A great deal of criminological and psychological research supports the idea that individuals characterized by low self-control are highly impulsive, egocentric, action-oriented, thrill-seeking ...
4 maj 2011 · Several psychological theories have been used to understand crime and delinquency. This literature review categorizes these perspectives into five areas, provides a brief overview of each, and analyzes and synthesizes the relevant, elements within each area.
