CRIM 1650 Lecture 5: Criminology - Lecture #5

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Variations: psychoanalytic - inability to control an inner feeling, trait-based personality theories, social learning theories - crime is scene as a product of conditioning or watching, modelling what they see. Aggression versus crime - the distinction between aggressive thoughts or attitudes and aggressive behaviours - need to distinguish between aggression (behavioural assessment) and crime (legal assessment) Us supreme court june 2011 ruling: evidence isn"t compelling and minimal correlation between aggression or crime and violent video games. Inability to account for the social distribution of crime - crime is correlated with certain factors such as, religion, social, economic, race, class, age factors: troubling policy implications. Identi cation - including an emphasis on identi cation on the use of screening tools, risk assessment tools in order to identify people who are prone to aggression. Incapacitation - given the assumption these individuals are pre disposed, the only real policy is to make them incapacitated or incarcerated.