ATS1281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin, Biosocial Theory, Psychoticism
7 Aug 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
In order to intervene future occurrences: believes in determinism as opposed to free will, responsibility is less pronounced. Family studies: assumption that criminal families can deduce genetic influences (families where parents and children have criminal convictions) Identical twins share similar behaviour, non-identical twins don"t display the same sort of behaviour. Adoption studies: track the progress of adopted children~ if their behaviour mirror biological parents or adopted parents. Genetics to matter but they only give us part of the answer. Intelligence and crime: people who have limited cognitive skills are more likely to commit crimes (hernstein and murray) 1994. Psychology of criminals: psychoanalysis, freud: id, ego, super-ego, according to freud criminals have failed to develop a proper super ego, personality theory, eysenck: your personality determines how hard you are to condition. Implications of positivist criminology for criminal justice: positivists are mainly concerned with the treatment of offenders rather than punishment ~ implies sentencing is tailored to individual.
