PSYC 3402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Social Learning Theory, Specific Weight, Behavioral Activation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Ian Broom

Document Summary

Psychology is interested in intra individual differences variations. Inter individual differences variations in criminal conduct between. The pic-r reflects a learning theory of crime that attends to social and (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) in criminal conduct within an individual across time and situation (cid:1) individuals. (cid:1) Central eight risk/need factors that are the most important in (cid:1) understanding criminal behavior. In this group there are the big four, proposed as the major causal variables in analysis of the criminal behavior in individuals. Equally significant, a series of meta analysis have confirmed that certain variables previously considered important correlates of crime in sociological theory have proved to be relatively unimportant. These factors are referred to as minor risk factors. The big four history of antisocial behavior, antisocial personality. Moderate risk factors are those that are part of the central eight. Some risk factors (antisocial history, seriousness of current offence) The more robust co-variation with criminal behavior is from variables.