Crime and Personality
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- Crime and Personality
- Eysenck - PEN Model
- Psychoticism
- Dopaminergic System
- Characteristics
- Aggression
- Egocentric
- Antisocial
- Impulsive
- Extraversion
- Ascending Reticular Activating System
- Characteristics
- Sociable
- Lively
- Impulsive
- Exciteable
- Neuroticism
- Limbic System
- Hypersensitive ANS
- Characteristics
- Shy
- Anxious
- Depressed
- Irrational
- Emotional
- Low Self-Esteem
- Limbic System
- Psychoticism
- Other Research
- Raine, Venables and Williams (1995)
- Long Term Recidivists - High P and E
- Studied Anti-Social Adolscents
- Desistors - abstained from criminal activity
- Better conditioning
- Criminals - committing an offence by age 29
- Control - non anti-social adolescents
- Desistors - abstained from criminal activity
- Steiner, Cauffmand and Duxbury (1999)
- Recidivists - High P, Low N
- Recidivists - Low Distress and Low Restraint
- Longitudinal study
- Violent vs. non-violent criminals
- No difference in terms of age, race, IQ or family income
- Van Dam, De Bruyn and Janssons (2007)
- 3 Clusters
- Cluster 1 - High E, Low P & N
- Cluster 2 - High P & N, Low E
- Cluster 3 - High P, E & N
- Cannot differentiate between recidivists and non-recidivists
- 3 Clusters
- Raine, Venables and Williams (1995)
- Eysenck - PEN Model
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