CRMJ 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-10: Sensation Seeking, Protective Factor, Psychopathy

• School: Towson University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRMJ 201
• Professor: Pryor

Document Summary

Psychosocial & biosocial theories: (interaction between nature & nurture) Basic assumptions of the psychosocial perspective of criminal behavior. Psychosocial theories explore individual differences in criminal propensity. Low iq alone cannot explain crime: not all those with a low iq commit crime, temperament may be the over intervening variable. Temperament: a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) that (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes a perso(cid:374)"s ha(cid:271)itual (cid:373)ode of emotionally responding to stimuli: personality, traits that we have that we carry with us throughout our lives from place to place to situation to situation. Psychopathy: may be the result of an interplay of neurobiological, psychological, and social factors, this term has been used a number of different ways: Manipulate people harm people to their own gain very clear in what it is that gets you rewards and can conform to those sort of norms and ideas. Individuals with lower verbal iq do more poorly in school because they are failing to achieve positively valued goals.