2. Chapter 6
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3. Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior
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4. Forensic Psychology
The application of the science and profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system
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5. Forensic Psychology Also known as criminal psychology
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6. Forensic Psychiatry
A medical subspecialty that applies psychiatry to the needs of...
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7. Forensic Psychiatry
…crime prevention and solution, criminal rehabilitation, and
issues of the
criminal law
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8. Psychological Theories
The individual is the primary unit of analysis
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9. Psychological Theories
Personality is the major motivational element within individuals It is the seat of drives and the source of motives
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10. Psychological Theories
Crimes result from abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes within
the personality
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11. Psychological Theories
Criminal behavior may be purposeful for the individual insofar as
it addresses
certain felt needs
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12. Psychological Theories
Normality is
defined by
social consensus
Defective mental
processes may
have a variety of
causes
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13. Early Psychological Theories
Behavioral
conditioning
Personality
disturbances and
diseases of the mind
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14. The Psychopath (Sociopath)
Does not feel empathy
with others
Is unable to imagine
how others think and feel
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15. The Psychopath (Sociopath)
Is able to inflict pain and engage in cruelty without empathy for the victim
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16. Antisocial Personality
Is basically unsocialized
Exhibits behavior
that brings him or
her into conflict with society
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17. Antisocial Personality
Is incapable of significant loyalty to individuals, groups, or social values
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18. Personality Types • Psychotics • Extroverts • Neurotics • Introverts
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19. Psychoanalysis
Criminal behavior is maladaptive, or the product of inadequacies inherent in the offender’s personality
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20. Psychoanalysis The Id The Ego The Superego
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21. The Psychotic Offender
Is out of touch
with reality
in some
fundamental
way
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22. Crime as Adaptive Behavior
Crime is a compromise, representing for the individual the most satisfactory method of adjustment…
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23. Crime as Adaptive Behavior
…to inner conflicts which he or she cannot express otherwise
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24. Modeling Theory People learn how to act by observing others
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25. Behavior Theory
Behavior is determined by environmental consequences which it produces for the individual concerned
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26. Behavior Theory
Major determinants of behavior are found in the environment surrounding the individual
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27. Attachment Theory Delinquent behavior arises whenever
non- secure attachments are created
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28. Self-Control Theory Low self-control
is the premier individual-level cause of crime
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29. Insanity and the Law
For purposes of the criminal law, insanity is strictly a legal,
not a clinical, determination
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30. Insanity and the Law M’Naughten Rule Irresistible Impulse Test
Durham Rule
Substantial Capacity Test
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31. Insanity and the Law Brawner Rule Guilty but mentally ill (GBMI)
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