PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Social Isolation, Asus
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Against all odds: high risk, chronic offenders, assess 400, only 6 met high risk standards, 4 people were assessed. Factors that prevented from desisting: good social support, social isolation - remove the risk factor. Process of desistence: ending of criminal behaviour. Hard to measure: the lack of an event, not the event itself, have to measure the whole lifetime. Need: target needs of the individual, assess strengths. Responsivity: cognitive behaviour therapy, might need more depending on the offender, age affects responsivity. Age-crime curve: offending peaks around 20-25, goes down after that age. Trajectories of offending: people high in psychopathic traits = high level chronics, they have a stable amount of crime. Low level chronics: small amount of crime, stable over time: adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)t li(cid:373)ited: para(cid:271)ola with large a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e duri(cid:374)g adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d that"s it. Late onset: start and age out of offending later in life. Start av: assess risk and protective factors for adolescents, ex.
