CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Culpable Homicide, Konrad Lorenz, Criminal Negligence
17 Mar 2016
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Human aggression: aggression is the basis of violent crime, instrumental for survival. Nature vs. nurture: violence is a behavioural manifestaion of aggression(= not interchangeable, aggression may or may not include violence, but violence always includes aggression. Hosile vs. instrumental aggression (feshbach, 1964: hosile (most violent crimes) Goals is to make vicims sufer: instrumental (usually stuf like robbery) Occurs due to compeiion/desire for material good/presige possessed by another. Usually no anger or intent to harm (but harm can happen depending on the situaion) Psychodynamic viewpoint: sigmund freud , humans suscepible to build-up of aggressive energy = can reach dangerous levels, resuling in violence, pressure must be dissipated through catharsis. Ethological viewpoint: ethology: study of animal behaviour, konrad lorenz (1966) Aggression is an inherited insinct developed through evoluion. Relevant because humans are part of animal world. Frustraion-aggression hypothesis: dollard et al. (1939, frustraion is interference with behaviour that has valued goal response.
