criminal behaviour - clinical characteristics
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- Created on: 10-02-21 11:59
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- clinical characteristics
- Sex offenders
- Individuals who engage in sexual contact with young children or adolescence.
- Those (using force) engage in sexual contact with others against their will or without their consent.
- Individuals who like inflicting pain or humiliation on others.
- Individuals who like participating in or watching acts of physical aggression or violence.
- individuals who like exposing themselves in a public setting.
- Murderers Type 1 (disorganised asocial offender)
- Generally is an individual who has a below average IQ.
- Possibly a high school drop-out
- Don’t date and live alone
- Likely to be unskilled workers/labourers
- Possibly had a father, whose work was unstable
- Received harsh and/or inconsistent discipline in childhood
- Of low birth order status
- Murderers Type 2 (organised non-social offender)
- Individuals generally have an above average or high IQ
- Socially adequate
- Tend to live with a partner and tend to be sexually competent
- These individuals have a high birth order
- Harshly disciplined in childhood
- They have an adept ability to control their mood or emotions and at times will be described as ‘charming’ as well as have a masculine image
- They are motivated by situational causes and are geographically or occupationally mobile
- Acquisitive criminals (fraud, burglary, extortion, aggravated burglary and robbery
- They generally seek access to criminal activity for pleasure or thrill
- Occasionally these individuals will have a formal motivation or cause for their crimes
- Some of these will take on either an intelligence or an economical reason behind the commission of the crime
- Terrorists
- They tend to be non-combatant civilians who are acting from a place of a perceived injustice or wrong against a person or persons
- Sometimes they are motivated by the occasional politically or economically triggered issues of the day
- Factors then will generally evoke a rationalization of a set of motives or causes that are then thereby pursued by acts of violence; these motives are generally an illogical perception of the truth of the involved events
- Potential psychological defect that produces these errant behaviours or perceptions (such as paranoia or schizophrenia)
- Sex offenders
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