CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White-Collar Crime, Biosocial Theory, Classical Conditioning
27 Nov 2020
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Chapter 3 - theories of crime: learning and environment. Harsh superego: unconscious guilt; criminal behaviour as a way to invite punishment (deserve to be punished and will commit deviant acts so they will be punished) Weak superego: failure to regulate the id (people will follow their urges and will commit deviant acts) Deviant superego: superego standards re ect deviant identi cation (ex. cults, they identify with their deviant ideas rather than the moral one) Bowlby"s theory of maternal deprivation (if the mother is cold and distant then the child will grow up missing that and wanting what they cannot have) Individual differences in functioning of nervous system -> different degree of learning from environmental stimuli. Antisocial individuals are de cient in classical conditioning (conditionality) Conscience as set of classically conditioned emotional responses operant conditioning. Criminal behaviour is determined by its environmental consequences (reinforcements and punishments)
