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Environmental Psychology |
Shifts focus to immediate circumstances and situations. Factors such asarchitecture , crowding, climate , noise, privacy and how this affectsindividuals |
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Moral DevelopmentTheories |
Emphasis on cognition. Offender thought to have cognitive ‘moralreasoning’ deficiency. Studies the reasons about the right and wrongs of behaviours |
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Social Learning Theory |
builds on behaviourism, interested in the way that individuals perceivedand interpret the environment. Focus on modelling and the idea that muchbehaviour is learned through observing and interacting |
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Behavioural Theories |
Crime is learned behaviour like any other behaviour. All behaviours aresubject to principles of reinforcement. Interested in behaviour and the environment |
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Psychoanalytic Theories |
Interactions between biological drives and early life span, closelyassociated with Freud. Behaviour due to unconscious psychological forces deepwithin |
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Trait Theories |
takes into account intellectual, behavioural and emotional characteristics.Many kinds of trait theories. Criminologists use these theories to showdifferences between offender and non-offenders |
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Bio behaviouralTheories |
Examines the factors that are present at birth and experiences throughoutthe life span. Genes d not directly cause behaviour. Role of neurologicalactivity and how this is affected by the environment |
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Genetics and Crime |
Transmission of genes and characteristics within families. Based onheritability, a terribly misunderstood concept |
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Evolutionary Psychology |
revives the idea of human nature and instincts. The function of life isto pass on genes. The human mind is designed for ancestral environments |
