CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deinstitutionalisation, Personality Disorder, Offender Profiling
15 Apr 2017
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Medieval europe: role of evil in causing crime. The enlightenment: focus on reason, new ideas about governments result 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 determinism. There are criminals and there are non-criminals. Id, ego & superego (3 parts of the human personality) Ego: conscious, moral (you can"t steal that) Believed that childhood is a key period of development. No longer widely accepted but useful for pointing out the importance of early development in understanding later behavior. 3 stages (2 parts each) stages deal with maturity and development of conscious: pre-conventional morality stage (child) There will be consequences so we don"t do bad things (afraid of punishment: conventional morality stage (teen) There are things that we avoid doing because they are morally wrong.
