CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Richard Herrnstein, Social Learning Theory, Potential Theory
16 Oct 2017
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Psychological theories: psychology, examines a number of factors thought to contribute to criminality and criminal behavior. Criminality and intelligence: goodard, connections between low intelligence and criminality feeble mind: have to eliminate by not producing, studied the kalikaks, sutherland, differential association theory, research linking criminality to intelligence is flawed, hirschi and hindelang. Intelligence does not have a direct impact on criminal behavior, but it impacts education and school performance: herrnstein and murray, black populations are overrepresented in the cjs, racial connection between criminality and low iq, causation and correlation. Psychoanalysis and crime: freud, psychodynamic approach: therapeutic technique in psychiatry and philosophy. Id unconscious: superego preconscious, ego. Psychological learning theories and criminology: psychology contributes a great deal of insight to theories in criminology, have offered fully developed explanations of why people commit crimes. Including: classical and operant conditional, frustration aggression hypothesis, social learning theory. Classical conditioning: pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s dogs learned reaction, e(cid:455)se(cid:374)(cid:272)h"s theor(cid:455) of (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455, extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism.
