Psychopathy
Homicide
Theories of Crime
Aggression
Mental
100
A distinct cluster of psychological, neurophysiological, interpersonal, and behavioral characteristics.
What is psychopathy?
100
The killing of a human by another human.
What is homicide?
100
An act that violates public law.
What is criminal behavior?
100
Behavior perpetrated or attempted with the intention of harming another individual physically or psychologically or to destroy an object.
What is aggression?
100
A disorder of the mind that is judged by experts to interfere substantially with a person's ability to copy with life on a daily basis.
What is mental illness?
200
Factors that increase the risk of psychopathology.
What are prenatal environment, neurological factors, psychophysiology and socialization?
200
In this type of Victim-Offender relationships the husband kills the wife.
What is Male-to-female homicide type?
200
Classical Theory, Psychological Theory, Sociological Theory and Biological Theory.
What are the four theories that explain the causes of a person’s criminal behavior?
200
Aggression where the aggressor goal is to make the victim suffer.
What characterize expressive type of aggression?
200
A cognitive deficiency which is measured by “IQ test” and can not be cured.
What is mental retardation?
300
Standard test to measure psychopathy.
What is Psychopathy Checklist (Revised) PCL-R, developed by Robert Hare?
300
Establish whether a human death was caused by the criminal act or omission of another and determine who caused the death.
What are two primary goals of the ?homicide investigation?
300
Tabula Rasa, Meads -3 stage Process, Bad vs. Good, and Bad environment=bad behavior.
What are some of the nurture (environmental) factors of criminal behaviors?
300
The aggression is not directed at the object of frustration, but instead displaced to another object.
What is displaced aggression theory?
300
Is the guidebook for clinicians seeking to define and diagnose specific mental disorder.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder?
400
A psychopath, called "The Iceman" who often froze his victims to obscure their time of death.
Who was Richard Kuklinski?
400
Four types of criminal Homicide.
What are: Domestic Homicide, Felony Homicide, “Victim-precipitated” Homicide, Sexual Homicide?
400
Pregnancy, Maturation, Critical behavior, and Genetically proven.
What is the nature (hereditary) factors of criminal behavior?
400
Individuals enact aggressive behavior to achieve instrumental goals, exacting retribution for a perceived wrong, or establishing a desired social identity.
What is Social Interaction Theory?
400
This, a type of chronic mental condition occurs more frequently in males than in females, about 3 percent of the American male population and about 1 percent of the American female population.
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
500
Key symptoms of psychopathy (at least seven).
What are glib and superficial, egocentric and grandiose, lack of empathy, lack of remorse or guilt, deceitful and manipulative, shallow emotions, impulsive, poor behavior controls, need for excitement, lack of responsibility, early behavior problems, adult antisocial behavior?
500
He suggested that aggression is the basic ingredient in violent crime, and he proposed two types of aggression: hostile (expressive), and instrumental aggression, which are distinguished by their goals or the rewards that they offer the perpetrator.
What is the two types of aggression suggested by Fesbach?
500
The risk factors such as Poverty, Peer Rejection and Association with Antisocial Peers.
What are social risk factors?
500
Individuals learn aggressive behavior from the world around them, including from the mass media.
What is Script theory of behavior?
500
The DSM-IV recognize five subtypes of Schizophrenia.
What are disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual?
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