CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operant Conditioning, Social Learning Theory, Offender Profiling
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Medieval europe: role of evil in causing crime. The enlightenment: focus on reason, new ideas about governments results in changes to criminal justice system. Classical criminology: deterrence and belief that the punishment should fit the crime. Biological positivism: criminals are born, not made; resulted in greater attention to. Treatment rather than punishment; today the focus is on predispositions rather than determinism. Id, ego, and superego: id- basic animal in us (animal nature, ego- moral, superego- tries to balance both, psychological problems occurred from one of the stages of development being incomplete, ex. Id- i want that television, ego- no don"t steal that is wrong (often listen to our id) No longer widely accepted but useful for pointing out the importance of early development in understand later behaviour. Piaget: moral development occurs in stages: not like a light switch, happens gradually, observed children playing and have they develop rules when they play their games, 3 stages: