Criminal Psychology Causes of Crime

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Raine (Brain Injury)
41 murderers pleading not guilty by reason of insanity had reduced glucose metabolism in PFC. This supports the idea that they have lack of control over social norms therefore leading to crime.
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Phineas Gage (Brain Injury)
He had an iron rod go through his PFC. After the accident he turned irritable, aggressive when before he polite and well respected.
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Raine (Amygdala)
41 murderers PNGRI had reduced glucose metabolism in the amgydala compared to control. this shows that impairements to amygdala can lead to crime due to lack of response to fear of consequences and of events that should be frightening.
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Blair (Amygdala)
Looked at the brains of psychopaths and found that they had imaprements in their amygdala and less response to fearful situations and to consequences. showing that when impaired people become criminals due to lack of a response to fear.
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James Fallon (Amygdala)
Used MRI's to identify brains of psychopaths, but identified his own. this shows that there may be brain differences but it may not lead to criminal behaviour.
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Rosenthal and Jacobsen (SFP)
they randomly labelled children late bloomers and about to bloom. when they came back a year later the late bloomers were doing worse. Showing that a label comes with charactersitics which people then judge and act towards them accordingly.
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Jahoda (SFP)
Studied Ashanti in Africa where children are named based on the day they were born. Monday child was placid and wednesdays child was aggresive he found that the prison population was made up of more people who were born on a wednesday.
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Fuller (SFP)
He studied a group of african caribbean girls at a comrehensive high school in london and they were labelled as likely to fail. they didnt fail. showing that people dont always conform to the characteristics of a label they are given.
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Jacobs (XYY)
He found that the prison population was overrepresented by males who suffered with XYY syndrome.
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Stockholm (XYY)
Found an increase of convictions against males with XYY syndrome showing that they are aggressive individulas.
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Theilguard (XYY)
He found that people who had XYY often had learning impairments and suggested that this was the cause of the criminality not the syndrome itself.
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Eysenk (Personality)
He found that on an EPI questionnaire that white european property criminals scored high on E P and N.
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Rushton (Personality)
Found a link between E and P and delinquency.
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Rushton (Personality)
However he didnt find a link with N and delinquency therefore his research cant fully support Eysenks findings.
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He had an iron rod go through his PFC. After the accident he turned irritable, aggressive when before he polite and well respected.

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Phineas Gage (Brain Injury)

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41 murderers PNGRI had reduced glucose metabolism in the amgydala compared to control. this shows that impairements to amygdala can lead to crime due to lack of response to fear of consequences and of events that should be frightening.

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Looked at the brains of psychopaths and found that they had imaprements in their amygdala and less response to fearful situations and to consequences. showing that when impaired people become criminals due to lack of a response to fear.

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Used MRI's to identify brains of psychopaths, but identified his own. this shows that there may be brain differences but it may not lead to criminal behaviour.

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