PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Antisocial Personality Disorder, Differential Association, Meta-Analysis
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Canadians believe more money should be spent on criminal justice system. Rated tv news as most important information source. Psychology is interested in intra individual differences (variation in criminal conduct within an individual across time/situations) as well as inter individual differences (variations in criminal conduct between individuals) Forensic psychology any application of psychology to the legal system. Uk criminicological psychology, us/can correctional psychology. Focus: understand assessment and management of individuals who engage in criminal behaviour, , to follow nature of the court. Macro level = understand crime as a large scale social phenomenon (strain theory) Micro level = importance of socialization and influence of community, family, (differential association theory) patterns of individual behaviour (over time/situation --> thoughts/feelings) Age crime data conceals wide range of offenders, doesn"t mention that small percent of offenders maintain criminal activity into adulthood --> crime desistance ( decrease in criminal activity over time) Psychology considers individual variation to account for heterogeneity.
