PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Superficial Charm, Insider Trading

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 622
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

Document Summary

Before 19th century: children and youth treated like adult offenders. Young offenders act: special circumstances of juvenile offenders, juvenile offenders recognized as cognitively different from adults, draw line at 12 years old. Objectives: prevention, responsibility for behaviour, rehab, reintegration of youth. 3 programs: violence, theft, drug use. Common modules included: know your rights, victim empathy (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) trajectories of juvenile offenders. Child onset: early behavioural problems, babies they have difficult temperament, tantrums. Adolescent onset: problems start in teen years, often engage in theft and vandalism. Child onset is more predictive of juvenile offenders theories. Biological: genetic and physiological differences between antisocial and non-antisocial youth, children with antisocial biological father more likely to be. Because boys get their y chromosome from their antisocial father. So fathers who engage in antisocial behaviour will more likely have a son with antisocial behaviour: antisocial youth have slower heart rates.