CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Victimless Crime, Motor Vehicle Theft, Classical Conditioning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 103
• Professor: William Glackman

Document Summary

An overview of psychosocial perspectives on crime and deviance. As stated in the introduction to this course, criminology is a multidisciplinary study of crime. Some of the different disciplines that contribute to criminology are psychology, sociology, geography, economics, and history. Psychological perspectives on crime and deviance thus make up only one part of criminology; they, too, are multifaceted and thus may be categorized into seven different orientations (quoted from. The effects of the immediate environment depend very much upon how the environment reinforces, punishes and ignores behavior: humanistic and existential perspectives may be differentiated from the above according to three concerns. The first is the emphasis placed upon free choice and personal responsibility. the second is the emphasis placed upon perceptions of the self and the world as perceived and. General social psychological perspectives tend to emphasize personal attitudes and beliefs, perceptions of the expectations of others and the demands of particular situations.