CRIM 103 Lecture : Criminology 103 lecture June 9.docx

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14 Apr 2012

School

Simon Fraser University

Department

Criminology

Course

CRIM 103

Professor

Barry Cartwright

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Tries to get life-sentenced criminals to try and rehabilitate. Pinel: manie sans delire : manie refers to mania which can be insanity, sans delire is without confusion of the mind. Cleckley: the mask of sanity (1941: 16 traits of the psychopath, similarity to current psychopathy criteria. Immaturity and responsibility: dissocial reaction, sexual reaction. 1968: antisocial personality disorder: a persuasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in early adolescence and continues into adulthood. Core factors (cooke & michie, 2001: arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style. We can never know is someone will be violent. False positive: violence predicted, no violence enacted. True negative: no violence predicted, no violence enacted. False negative: no violence predicted, violence enacted. Biological: genetics, brain development & functioning, cortical arousal. Research focused on white, adult, males: applicability to other ethnic groups/youth and women.

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To date, there is no universally effective, long-term psychological treatment for antisocial personality disorder (or psychopathy specifically). In many cases, particularly when a psychopath or an individual with APD commits a violent crime, confinement is the only form of long-term management. What ethical concerns with this come to mind, if any? Should society explore other methods to treat/manage psychopathy, or is confinement a reasonable approach in violent circumstances?

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From the situation below which person would you choose and why? Why do you choose them over the other seven? Why is that one the best person to save?

The situation: Far to the south of Hawaii in an uncharted part of the vast Pacific Ocean, there is a beautiful uninhabited island. Eight people are stranded from a plane crash. A plane has stumbled upon the eight and can only rescue one person. The chances of a second trip are removed but not impossible because the island is uncharted and the plane's radio and radar are broken. The people left on the island, will not starve, but survival will be extremely difficult. Decide individually which person should be allowed to make the trip home and why?

The people are one who is pregnant close to term and history of difficult childbirths
A world-famous surgeon to perform surgery on a young girl from Iraq
A teenage girl who was orphaned several years ago and close to a psychotic breakdown
Vice-President of the U.S. who is ill and not expected to live
78-year-old fisherman injured from the crash for hospital treatment
A criminal psychopath who is dangerous
A nuclear scientist who is needed in Japan to help defuse a potential reactor crisis
The nuclear scientist's 3-year-old daughter.

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HELP WITH ALL QUESTIONS

1. Which condition occurs when the pressure in the eye is too high?

2. What lobe of the brain is required for vision?

3. Which division of the nervous system is "automatic"?

4. Which tube connects the ear with the back of the throat?

5. Which division of the nervous system is responsible for resting and digesting?

6. The cleft area between two neurons is called?

7. The photoreceptors more concentrated around periphery of the fovea are?

8. Which humor fills the anterior chamber?

9. The primary sensory area of the brain is located in which lobe?

10. The photoreceptor for color is called?

11. The unmyelinated area of a myelinated axon is called the node of?

12. The bundle of fibers that connects the hemispheres is called the?

13. A part of the brain associated with aggressiveness, and found to be larger than normal in sociopaths/psychopaths, is the?

14. The primary motor cortex is in which lobe of the brain?

15. Which lobe of the brain is essential to executive functions?

16. Neurons receive messages at their?

17. The part (not lobe) of the brain essential to memory is the?

18. What is commonly known as the âwhite of the eyes.â?

19. Neurons transmit information in the form of a nerve impulse along their?

20. The photoreceptors that work better under conditions of low light are?

21. Which humor fills the posterior chamber?

22. The fancy scientific term that includes all bones of the middle ear is the term?

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