CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Grand Theft Auto Iii, School Violence, Psychopathy Checklist

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Criminology lecture #5 exam date- december 14 7pm-9pm. People are locked up because of what they might do- not because of what they have done. Characteristics of a psychopath engaged bigger than everyone friendly intelligent hard to pick out -until they talk about power and control lack of remorse, empathy tell a story that is brutal, without any remorse nomadic moves around a lot. 1% of the population are psychopaths, hare. Checklist is used for prison terms, parole boards, release ect. prison inmates can participate in many programs- group therapy, addiction counselling performance in programs can predict future, within prison or after release. Factor 2 case history- arrests people who grow up in privilege are less likely to commit crimes. The checklist is measuring who and what a psychopath is, their crime history and their personality. Not just violent crime, but crime generally, makes a higher score on checklist.