PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Court, Femicide, Young Offenders Act

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Risk taking can be a way of life. Death from high risks activities challenges caution insures safety . Accidents (** a true accident could not have been prevented and are rare**) Intrinsic and extrinsic factors (**intrinsic: within you; extrinsic: things around you**) Midwest: 1993- no one died but 20 mill in damages. Result of growth of population and industrialization (bophal-2500 dead and 100 billion in damages) Adequate warning- info may be withheld due to politics or greed (mt. Postvention working with survivors, help given in aftermath. Random violence most threatening (**creates caution in society**) Feelings of safety that come with connectedness are diminishing. St helen: new it was going to explode. Everyone evacuated expect 60 and therefore 60 people died. Political and personal use of violence in world-wide (terrorism) Example: ng- charged and convicted of death penalty in the us, he escaped to. Criminal and noncriminal (**criminal: 1st degree: premeditation and intent; 2nd degree: intended but.