individual theories
- Created by: kryatal morgans
- Created on: 15-03-23 12:23
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- Individualistic theories for criminality
- Psychodynamic Theories
- Freud
- ID, Ego, Superego
- superego- morality
- ID- instinct
- Ego- reality
- strengths
- highlights importance of early socialisation and family relationships in understanding criminal behaviour
- these explanations had some influence on politics to try help deal with crime
- weaknesses
- unscientific and subjective- cant rely on accepting the claims of freud
- cant understand the unconscious mind
- ID, Ego, Superego
- Freud
- Psychological Theories
- Bowlby's - maternal deprivation
- main caregiver needs to be present for the first 2 years of a child's life else the child may suffer long lasting effects
- study - 44 juvenile delinquents compared to non criminal juveniles- 39% of delinquents had been separated compared to 5% in control group
- strengths
- research support
- proves parent-child relationships need to be looked into for criminality
- weaknesses
- the study counts for 39% but what about the other 61%
- he later studied 60 children separated < 5 and found no evidence of affectionless psychopathy
- Bowlby's - maternal deprivation
- Psychodynamic Theories
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