SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Forensic Psychiatry, Criminal Psychology, Reality Principle
12 Apr 2016
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Cct chapter 7 (psychological and psychiatric foundations of criminal behaviour) Forensic psychology: the application of the science and the profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system. Forensic psychiatry: the branch of psychiatry associated with the study of crime and criminality. Psychological theories: those that are derived from the behavioural sciences and that focus on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the offender. Behavioural conditioning: a psychological principle holding that the frequency of any behaviour can be increased or decreased through reward, punishment, and/or association with other stimuli. Psychopathology: the study of pathological mental conditions-that is mental illness. Psychiatric criminology: theories derived from the medical sciences, including neurology. Psychiatric theories form the basis of psychiatric criminology. Forensic psychiatry: that branch of psychiatry having to do with the study of crime and criminality.
