Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Piaget, Moral Realism, Moral Reasoning
17 Feb 2020
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Value assumptions: offender deficit, discriminating traits. Personality is composed of: id, ego, superego. Psychoanalytic theorists suggest: crime occurs when the ego and superego are unable to control the aggressive, antisocial instincts of the id, the criminal seeks punishment to alleviate the guilt over their unconscious desires. Crime is a means of obtaining substitute gratifications of needs and desires not obtained in the family. Crime may be an expression of displaced hostility. Unstable you can"t test/measure someone"s id or ego. Circular aggressive acts are explained by aggressive impulses, but only the acts are proof of this. No evidence that criminals seek to be punished. Sense of morality and responsible is the key to understanding criminality. Based on child development theory of jean piaget: moral reasoning develops in stages, premoral period (4-5, moral realism (6-10, autonomous reality (11+) Kolhberg"s theory of moral development: extended piaget"s theory into adolescence and adulthood, moral dilemnas (heinz dilemna, obeying a rule, law, or authority figure.
