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Psychological theories of criminal behaviour
Title: Psychological theories of criminal behaviour
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 1998 | Pages: 8.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Psychological theories of criminal behaviour
Psychological and psychiatric theories of criminal behaviour emphasise individual propensities and characteristics in explanations of criminality. Whether the emphasis is on conditioned behaviour, the development of parental attachment, or the psychoanalytic structure of the human personality, these approaches see the wellsprings of human motivation, desire, and behavioural choice as being firmly rooted in the personality.
Some of the earliest positivists were convinced that criminal behaviour was a result of genetic abnormality. Lombroso advanced the notion …showed first 75 words of 1998 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1998 total…Sociology Themes and Perspectives, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Harrower, Julie, Applying Psychology to Crime, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998
McLaughlin, Eugene and Muncie, John, Controlling Crime, Sage Publications Inc, 1996
Walklate, Sandra, Understanding Criminology Current Theoretical Debates, Open University Press, 2001
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