What are the major principles of psychological perspectives of criminal behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
• The individual is the primary unit of analysis.
• Personality is the major motivational element 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 may be purposeful for the individual insofar as it addresses certain felt needs. Behavior can be judged "inappropriate" only when measured against external criteria purporting to establish normality.
• Normality is generally defined by social consensus (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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