Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Learning Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Age 13
15 Oct 2016
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Have to do with personality and personality traits. Value assumptions: offender deficit, discriminating traits. David farrington: views criminal behavior of several different psychological factors. Psychoanalytic theory: application of freud"s theory to criminality. Freud would say that criminals have a stronger urge to be id, the id takes over and the superego and ego cannot control it. Never actually talked about crime, his followers used his theory and implemented crime into the equation. Fix and cure any problem through adequate child socialization, parents are to blame if it goes wrong: personality composed of: The superego: regulates the id and ego, mediator, morality principle, conscious, what is right from wrong. The traits make up the psychic apparatus (psychic personality) Develop the traits as we age: psychoanalytic theorists suggest: Crime occurs when the ego and superego are unable to control the aggressive, anti social instincts of the id. Criminal behavior is a form of neurosis.
