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forensic psychology
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application of the science and profession of psychology to question/issues related to law and the legal system; aka criminal psychology
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forensic psychiatry
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branch of psychiatry that studies crime and criminality.
Practictioners apply psychiatry to the needs of crime prevention & solution, criminal rehabilitation, and issues of the criminal law. |
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psychological theory
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theory derived from the behavior sciences that focuses on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the individual offender.
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Most psychological theories of crime causation make fundamental assumptions:
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1. The individual is the primary unit of analysis.
2. Personality is the major motivational element because it is the seat of drives and the source of motives. 3. Crimes result from abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes within the personality. Criminal behavior may be pruposeful the individual as it addresses "felt" needs. 4. Normality defined by social consensus. 5. Defective/abnormal mental processes may have a variety of causes. |
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psychopathy
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specific and sdistinctive type of ppsychopath9ology
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psychopathology
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any sort of of psychological disorder that causes distress either for the individual or for those in the person's life.
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