CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Attribution Bias, Organism, Cognitive Distortion

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: Jeffery Mathesuis

Document Summary

Crim 103 - lecture 4 - learning & situational factors of crime. Emphasizes inability of internal psychological processes to control antisocial impulses. If strong internal psychological processes do not exist, control over behavior is difficult. Parenting & trauma - primary sources of poor development. More likely to default to id b/c driven to impulses. Id, ego, superego - vague constructs & have little empirical validity. Conclusion - ultimately too simplistic, doesn"t explain crime variety. Person is essentially acting on all impulses & no regulation. If development stages not gone through successfully, more problems caused & build on each other. Parenting - directed to level of impulse control. States no self control is all that is needed to understand criminal behavior. Even w/ situations not even criminal & antisocial. Age-graded theory of informal social control & cumulative disadvantage. Criminal behavior - related to family, work, school. If not bonded w/ 3, chances of acting irrationally - higher.