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Chapter 5: Psychological Theories on Individuals and Crime. Click on the + in the Contents menu to see all the parts of this chapter, or go through them in order by clicking Next → below.
4 Μαΐ 2011 · Several psychological theories have been used to understand crime and delinquency. This literature review categorizes these perspectives into five areas, provides a brief overview of each, and analyzes and synthesizes the relevant, elements within each area.
6 Φεβ 2024 · Major psychological theories of crime include the trait theory of personality and theories of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and cognitive psychology. Psychoanalysis emphasizes motivation and evil human nature, and holds that sexual and aggressive instincts are the fundamental causes of crime.
1 Ιαν 2003 · The chapter begins with the historically troubled story of an inverse relationship between intelligence and delinquent and criminal behavior, and argues that even today criminologists tend to downplay the role of intelligence.
Theories that explain crime and delinquency as a result of personality traits focus on delinquency as an externalizing behavior representing internal pathology. Representing a large literature, two prominent theories are the psychodynamic-psychoanalytical theory and the personality trait theory.
2 Δεκ 2021 · The application of cognitive theories to criminal behaviour has moved through various stages. Sutherland’s Differential Association Theory (1930s/40s) introduced the notion of cognitions (definitions in the theory) as a factor in explaining crime.
3 Δεκ 2017 · Overall, modern psychological theories attempt to integrate finding from diverse fields, such as biology, psychology, sociology, economics, and criminology, working toward a kind of “unified field theory” of criminal psychology and of human behavior in general.
