CRIM 103 Lecture 4: Crim 103 – week 3

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: Chantal Faucher

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Developmental perspective (ch. 2: risk factors, elements predictive of negative dev. Increase probability: nonspecific accumulation of # of factors, resilience factors, counteracting elements that reduce risk, coping, adaptation, resistance, recovery, compensatory or buffering effect p. 46 table 4-3. & lang. difficulties: low iq scores, adhd, cd. Inadequate parenting: abuse, neglect, parental psychopathology, antisocial sibling, poverty. Environmental: social support, community cohesion, neighbourhood safety. Chemical treatment (70%: antisocial behavior, peer rejection, substance abuse. Issues: a cluster of behaviours characterized, comorbidity ( ) by persistent misbehaviour. Moffit"s de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal theory: life-course-persistent (lcp) offenders, adolescent-limited (al) offenders, no antisocial behaviour during teen years, have average/above in social skill, personal skill. Behaviorism assumptions: learning by observation, principles of learning apply equally, stimulus=response, learning involves behaviour change, tabula rasa (blank slate, learning results from environmental events (conditioning) Behaviorism watson: law of frequency, law of recency. Pavlov: classical conditioning, stimulus response connection.