University:
University College London
Course:
LAWS0035 | Criminology
Academic year:

2024
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48

Pages:

6
Author:

Carla J.

THEDRIES OF DELINQUENCY Tarly Generd Theorier of cauer of Delingwency DEMONO LOGICAL THEORY • oldert theory • baved on the belier of primitive people that every object and pervon in guided by a vpirit • promoted the notion that. person whould not be held reponvible for their actionn when they do evil thing becauve their body ir being parrewed by a bad spirit CLAVICAL THEORY • rationale thinker, Free will • a peron know what'r right and wrong but utill do unlawful actr. • partulated by cevare Becarria and Jeremy Bentham * General Deterrence - will trike fear in the hearts of other prople thur making them terr likely to commit actr or delinquency or crime * Upecipic Deterrence - punichment wil trike rear in hearts of wrongdoing thur making them lev likely to offend other again * Incapacitation - incarceration and privon * Retribution - punichment For wrongdoen - punivhment is morally right and jut in light of the karm and damage they caure from a penon/v POVITIVE THEORY • rekabilitation • developed by cesare lombroro, Enrico Ferri . Kafaele Garoralo • they think that there ir vomething wrong why a perron commit a crime • biological, prychological and rocial factory are the rearon why a pervor commit crime CRITICAL THEORY • thir theory blames delinquency on the imbalance of power within the human vociety • by-product of vocial arrangementr * power 4 superior * In plu ence • connection * Inequality → root caure * Conplict of al complict Note! Critical Theory week the rearon or reek For a peron'v motive in hiv commivion of crime BIOLOGICAL THEORY • biological / genetio de fect • not jurt phyvical, alre mental inter action with the environment • from parent to orrupring LOMBROVIAN THEORY a. criminal har many vtigmata (dirtinetive phyvical reature ) - enormour j'aur - receding chinv - rymmetrical race - large / protruding ears b. atavivtic being - primitive benavior - incapable of living in the modern rocicty c. criminals : - insane - epileptic - inborn GENERAL INFERIORITY THEORY / HOOtONY THEORY • environment in the caure of crime • criminals are inferior people - irolation - exile • uterilized - vavectomy - ligation WILLIAM SHELDON'S THEORY a. Endomorphr - rat, round and voft , have whort arme and legr - extrovert ( more likely to be mentally ill) b. Meromorph - athletic and marcular phyvique with active avertive and aggrevive pervonality c. Cotomerphs - vkinny with lean and fragile body - introvert: ( more likely to commit vuicide ) PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY freudan Prychoanalytic THeory - conflict in painful to confront - une defenre mechanirm 4 Elemento of Freudr " Theory 1• Human nature ir inherently anti -rocial 2. Good behavior comer through errective vocialization 8. The lipelong featurer of the human perronality originate in early childhood 4. Delinguent behavior in the revult of depective ruperego. 3 Part of Human Pryche ( Pervonality ) +• ID ( meeting, our bavic needr) - drive for pleavure and by inborn vexual and aggreive impuluer 2. EGO ( dealing with reality ) - reprevent probiem volving dimension~ oF pervonality 3• VUPEREGO ( adding moralr) - represent the morale code, norm and valver the individual har acquired LOW IQ THEORY - ignorant and naivenerv ATTENTION - DEFICIT HYPFRACTIVITY THEORY -caured by immaturity and hyperactivity * Daydreaming * Impulrivenero * fluggirhnew * Pre - occupation