ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Psychopathy, Bad Hindelang, Family Therapy
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More likely to be arrested, appear in court. More likely to harm self than others. Crime and mental illness may be a function of poverty. Personality: stable, distinctive pattern of behaviour, thoughts, and emotions. Sheldon and eleanor glueck: antisocial youth defiant, assertive, extroverted, suspicious, narcissistic, sadistic, hostile, etc. Hans eysenck: extroversion/introversion and stability/ instability linked to antisocial behaviour, direction of personality is heritable. Conscientiousness: ability to control impulses, carry out tasks, organize, follow moral code. , Antisocial actors are: hostile, self-centred, spiteful, jealous, hyperactive, impulsive etc. Incidence of psychopathy or sociopathy about 4% of males, 1% of females: perhaps 10% of prison population, up to 80% of chronic offenders, account for over half of all serious crime. Cause: dysfunctional family life, ad/hd, low arousal, brain disorders, low fear quotient, ineffective coping skills. See research by dutton nature nurture controversy nature theory. Delinquents are more likely to be mentally defective. Uses iq tests in jails to establish link.
