What are the principles of the psychological and psychiatric perspectives?
What will be an ideal response?
• The individual is the primary unit of analysis
• Personality is the major motivational element within individuals, because it is the seat of drives and the source of motives
• Crimes result from abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes within the personality
• Criminal behavior, although condemned by the social group, may be purposeful for the individual insofar as it addresses certain felt needs
• Normality is generally defined by social consensus, which is what the majority of people in any social group agree is "real," appropriate, or typical
• Defective, or abnormal, mental processes may have a variety of causes, including a diseased mind, inappropriate learning or improper conditioning, the emulation of inappropriate role models, and adjustment to inner conflicts
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a. Probative b. Material c. Direct d. Circumstantial
Searches of private places without the consent or knowledge of the occupants are called __________ and ___________ searches
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Some states have established a highway patrol instead of a state police agency with jurisdiction over all traffic laws on interstate roads
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Force applied by a police officer that is likely or intended to cause death is known as
a. deadly force. b. aggressive force. c. less than lethal force. d. non-deadly force.