CC290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juvenile Delinquency, Neuropsychology, Biological Determinism
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More recently, the core principles of biosocial theories. Genetic make-up makes up on human behaviour. How is crime causation defined differently/ research differently/ understood differently: social, environment, knowledge. Started in1939 problems of human behaviour and motivation: study of nature and nurture, intimate social behaviour specific types of criminals and delinquencies. Distinguish between what conditions delinquencies and the causes of delinquencies: criminals in socioeconomic environments to understand criminality, people are stressed and strained. Conditions of someone"s actions and why they are doing it. Differences in youth if they would adopt criminal behaviour. Complex of different variables around youth delinquency. Youth feels not wanted, not all youth understands these types of feelings and will become delinquents. Youth aren"t understanding of their own characteristics, such as not youth are angry. Why individuals commit crimes pass on this behaviour in their genes: that they would die off easily. Stealing is a behaviour, not a trait of an individual.
