PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: General Social Survey, Kingston Penitentiary, Aggression
Document Summary
Different interventions needed for life-course persistent (comprehensive & extensive programs) and adolescentlimited (school based programs) Chapter 7: violent offending: general violence & homocide. 36 year old fourth-time federal offender currently serving three-year sentence at kingston penitentiary. After being released from his last term, he went on a spree , threatened to kill a man; used counterfeit mone8; broke ex-girlfriend"s window; threatened to kill a woman. Once taken into custody he assaulted & threatened many correctional officers & offenders. Has long history of criminal behaviour, spends great deal of time in segregation while incarcerated. His biological (criminal) father left his mother before he was born, raised by mom & alcoholic step- father who threw him out when he was 11 for disruptive behaviour. Went from foster home to foster home, eventually robbed convenience at knifepoint at 16. Worked a total of six months & one week in his entire life, lives on the street, never married.
