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Chapter 7
Psychological
and Psychiatric
Foundations of
Criminal Behaviour
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2. Early Psychological Theories
Behavioural conditioning
Personality disturbances and diseases of
the mind
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The Psychopath
(Sociopath)
A person with a personality
disorder, especially one
manifested in aggressively anti-social behaviour.
Hervey Cleckley
Anti-Social
Personality Disorder
An individual displaying
a personality disorder
that includes aggressive,
impulsive behaviour and
general disregard for the
rights of others.
Robert Hare
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4. Personality Types and Crime
psychotics
extroverts
neurotics
introverts
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5. Criminal Behaviour as Maladaption
The Psychoanalytic Perspective
the Id
the Ego
the Superego
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6. Criminal Behaviour as Maladaption
The psychotic offender is
suffering from a psychosis
is out of touch with reality in some
fundamental way
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7. Crime as Adaptive Behaviour
Crime is a compromise, representing for the
individual the most satisfactory method of
adjustment to inner conflicts that he or she
cannot express otherwise.
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8. Social Learning Theory
A psychological perspective that says that
people learn how to behave by modelling
themselves after others whom they have
the opportunity to observe.
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9. Behaviour Theory A psychological perspective positing that
individual behaviour that is rewarded will
increase in frequency, while that which is
punished will decrease.
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10. Mental Illness and the Law
McNaughten Rule
Fitness to Stand Trial
Not Criminally Responsible by Reason
of Mental Disorder (NCRMD)
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11. Social Policy and Forensic Psychology
Selective incapacitation
Dangerous Offender designation
Criminal Psychological Profiling
Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)
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