PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Coursework, Psychopathy
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The personal factors: characteristics about the person, biology, age, gender, temperament, general antisocial personality (psychopathic features encapsulated within this construct), self regulation/self control deficits, early onset problems of criminal behaviour include lying, stealing, aggression, attitudes supportive of crime, ties to convention/school/employment. How does this theory account for different people: whether the rewards for crimes will exceed the costs for one person and not another depend on (1) history how person x with his/her own unique set of personal" factors has been shaped" environmentally over the course of his/life in the interpersonal and community spheres of life and (2) the immediate situation whether the rewards exceed costs in the immediate situation. Other key factors: to denounce unlawful conduct (retribution, to remove offenders from society (incapacitation, to assist in rehabilitation efforts (rehabilitation, to provide reparation to victims (restorative justice, to promote as sense of responsibility in offenders (restorative/rehabilitation)
