SOCI 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Western Law, Reinforcement, Neuroticism
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Forensic psychology or criminal psychology: the application of the science and profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system. Forensic psychiatry: the branch of psychiatry associated with the study of crime and criminality. Focusing on the individual as the unit of analysis. Envisions a complex set of drives and motives operating from recesses deep within the personality. Determines behaviour as the result of a dysfunctional personality. Emphasizes the role of personality in human behaviour. Sees deviant behaviour as the result of a dysfunctional personality. Criminal behaviour can be a form of adaptation when it results in stress reduction. Psychiatric perspective: envisions a complex set of drives and motives operating from recesses deep within the personality, crime is caused by biological and psychological urges mediated through consciousness very little emphasis on external factors. Psychoanalytic perspective: based on concepts of the unconscious, resistance, repression, sexuality, and the.
