Psychological theories of crime
[DOC File]General Theories of Crime and Hackers
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While biological and psychological theories of crime stress individual characteristics and/or predispositions, sociological theories focus on how larger social forces contribute to crime. Functionalists focus on two theories when examining crime: Strain Theory and Social Control Theory.
[DOC File]Psychological - Clydebank High School
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Jan 21, 2010 · Glasser believed in rational choice theory, that people have free will to decide whether or not to commit a crime. But in the simplest form, “Psychological factors of crime include anger, fear, poverty, drug use, mental illness, gang membership, bad …
[DOCX File]Chapter 7: Psychological/Trait Theories of Crime
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The major traditional psychological theories crime fall woefully short of explaining all of the hacking behaviours (Rogers, 2001). Certain theories such as Kohlberg’s moral development theory, differential reinforcement theory, and social learning theory, appear to be useful in explaining how the initial behaviour may be acquired and then ...
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approach, which relies upon free will as the main cause of crime. Historically, theories of the biochemistry type have tried to establish the biological inferiority of criminals, but modern biocriminology simply says that heredity and body organ dysfunctions produce a predisposition toward crime.
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Feminist theories argue that the causes of their crime differ somewhat from those of male crime, although female crime is largely explained in terms of strain theory. Meda Chesney-Lind and others argue that much female crime stems from the fact that juvenile females are …
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Chapter 7: Psychological/Trait Theories of Crime. Learning Objectives. Identify the general principles of psychoanalysis and how psychoanalysis applies to criminal behavior. Describe the three dimensions associated with Hans Eysenck’s theory of crime and personality.
[DOC File]Chapter 3: The Nature and Causes of Crime
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The theories differ in the type of social relations that they stress and the motivations on which they are based. While control theory rests on the premise that the breakdown of society frees the individual to commit crime, strain theory is focused on the pressure that is placed on the individual to commit crime (Agnew, 1992:49).
[DOC File]CHAPTER TWO:
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Be familiar with the “dark figures of crime” and know how they affect crime statistics. Know the age, gender, race, and ethnicity of the most likely persons to be criminal offenders or victims of crime. Distinguish between choice, trait, and sociological theories. Explain the social policy applications of the theories. Introduction
[DOCX File]CRIME THEORIES
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The final group of psychological theories focuses on the potential link between personality and criminality. Although there is currently much debate on whether personality characteristics play a significant role in determining subsequent criminal behavior, a number of prominent criminologists have argued that “ the root causes of crime are ...
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Social structure theories vary from the previously discussed theories because they disregard any biological or psychological variations across individuals. Instead, social structure theories assume that crime is caused by the way that societies are structurally organized.
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