Cognitive explantations of criminal behaviour
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- Cognitive Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- Yochelson and Samenow- Criminal Thinking Patterns
- Aimed to understand make up of criminal personality.
- To establish techniques that would be used to alter personality disorders in order to reduce or prevent crime.
- Longitudinal study using interviews over 14 years.
- Interviews based on Freudian techniques- aimed to identify root cause of criminal behaviour.
- Longitudinal study using interviews over 14 years.
- To establish techniques that would be used to alter personality disorders in order to reduce or prevent crime.
- FINDINGS- 52 thinking patterns criminals have more than non-criminals.
- Closed thinking- not receptive to criticism, good at finding fault in others but not themselves.
- External attribution- views self as victim, blames others.
- See only positive aspect of self and not faults.
- Sees self as unique and better than others.
- Lack of interest in responsible behaviour.
- Sees all things places and peoples as being there for them to use. uses relationships and sex for power.
- Lack of interest in responsible behaviour.
- External attribution- views self as victim, blames others.
- Closed thinking- not receptive to criticism, good at finding fault in others but not themselves.
- Aimed to understand make up of criminal personality.
- Yochelson and Samenow- Criminal Thinking Patterns
- 255 males from various class and ethnic backgrounds who had been found guilty but due to reasons of insanity were hospitalised not imprisoned.
- Yochelson and Samenow- Criminal Thinking Patterns
- Aimed to understand make up of criminal personality.
- To establish techniques that would be used to alter personality disorders in order to reduce or prevent crime.
- Longitudinal study using interviews over 14 years.
- Interviews based on Freudian techniques- aimed to identify root cause of criminal behaviour.
- Longitudinal study using interviews over 14 years.
- To establish techniques that would be used to alter personality disorders in order to reduce or prevent crime.
- FINDINGS- 52 thinking patterns criminals have more than non-criminals.
- Closed thinking- not receptive to criticism, good at finding fault in others but not themselves.
- External attribution- views self as victim, blames others.
- See only positive aspect of self and not faults.
- Sees self as unique and better than others.
- Lack of interest in responsible behaviour.
- Sees all things places and peoples as being there for them to use. uses relationships and sex for power.
- Lack of interest in responsible behaviour.
- External attribution- views self as victim, blames others.
- Closed thinking- not receptive to criticism, good at finding fault in others but not themselves.
- Aimed to understand make up of criminal personality.
- Yochelson and Samenow- Criminal Thinking Patterns
- Kohlberg- Moral Development in children-
- Cognitive Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- AIM- to find evidence in support of a progression through the stages of moral development.
- Cognitive Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- Suggests moral development is part of universal cognitive development.
- Kohlberg- Moral Development in children-
- AIM- to find evidence in support of a progression through the stages of moral development.
- Kohlberg- Moral Development in children-
- CONCLUSION- offenders made external attributions for their violent behaviour and were aware of how others will see behaviour.
- This is why they used neutralisation techniques to deny their actions where wrong or harmful.
- Byers et al- Hate crimes against the Amish
- Investigate attribution bias in offenders who committed hate crimes against the Amish.
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