SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Order Of The Solar Temple, The Roots, Personality Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

There are a number of competing explanations for violent behaviour. Personal traits (neurological impairments, learning disabilities, psychosis, illogical thinking, low intelligence) Substance abuse (influences violence through the effects of drugs, the need to obtain drugs, and relation to drug trafficking) Human instincts (freud believed it was some humans have the instinct that drives them into self destruction) Regional values (different values and views on violence in different regions) Cultural values (subcultures of violence- violence as a way to solve conflicts - and gangs) Brutilization process is the first stage in a violent career during which parents victimize children, causing them to develop a belligerent, angry demeanor. Psychopharmacological is the effect of a mood altering substance such as alcohol, Pcp, or amphetamines in producing a change in behaviour that can be violent. Crime related violence is when violence is committed during the course of another crime, usually between strangers.