CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intimate Partner Violence, Extraversion And Introversion, Derek B

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Psychological positivism; psychoanalysis; personality theories; psychopathy; learning theories; Moral development; life-course criminology; rational actor theories; crime scripts"; routine. Nature vs nurture: last week focused on biocriminology; heavy emphasis on nature, like biological theories, psych/crime choice theories are individual-focussed (unlike sociological theories) but are mostly interested in processes of nurture. Psychological crime theories: psychoanalytic theory, trait-based theories, psychological learning theories, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, frustration-agression theory, social learning theory. Freudian psychoanalytics: freud said that personality had three components: the id, the ego, and the superego, the id is the instinctual, impulsive part of our personality, that contains our hidden urges, desires, and wishes (i. e. , the subconscious). The ego operates in accordance with the reality principle (attempts to delay gratification and operate in socially acceptable manner). Freudian criminology: freudian criminologists attribute criminality to problems with: Child-rearing (poor parenting), early childhood development, lack of moral compass. ": overactive superego: individuals commit crimes in order to be punished (to lessen feelings of guilt).