WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Siege Mentality, Concentrated Poverty
23 Oct 2012
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Studying findings, what are the findings that support and bring the theory into questions. Policy implications, short answers: can be in point form: week 1, 5 questions, Week 2, 6 questions, week 3, 5 questions, week 4, 7 questions, week 5, 7 questions. Attempts to understand the psychological processes that motivate crime. A focus on individual mental functioning: psychodynamic / psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive. Focus on early childhood experiences: major destructions can have a profound impact on behavior. Developmental stages (oral stage, anal stage and genital stage): any destructions can impact developmental stages. Neuroses (afraid to lose control: feelings of guilt at an early stage may result in committing physical crime. Psychotics (have lost control): stuck at the id stage of develops, the drive for desires, lack of self control, lack of apathy, can act in a criminal behavior without feeling guilt. Alfred adler (inferiority complex) the idea because of early hood destructions, one would want to over come this inferiority.
