Intro. to Criminal Behavior
An act or omission that is legally defined as a crime.
Criminal Behavior
Constitutional Criminologist
Most likely homicide victim as a result of family violence.
Spouse
Phineas Gage suffered a traumatic head injury that injured this part of his brain.
Frontal Lobe
Adolescent-limited delinquents begin engaging in delinquency through this.
Social mimicry of antisocial lifestyles
If you have developed a set of interconnected statements about how viewing violent media is related to violent behavior in the real world, then what have you developed?
Theory
He documented the presence of poverty and antisocial behavior running through multiple generations of a family.
Richard Dugdale
This field studies how natural selection shapes and influences mental processes and behaviors.
Evolutionary Psychology
A dysfunction in this hemisphere can contribute to schizophrenia
Left Hemisphere
Maternal alcoholism and binge-drinking during pregnancy, and the adverse effects it can have on the unborn child, are examples of this complication.
Prenatal Complicatation
The theory that crime is defined in a manner that is broadly agreed upon by the members of society.
Consensus Theory of Crime
This is a genetic predisposition to develop a pathological condition.
Diathesis
This evolutionary concept best explains the self-sacrificing behavior of parents who rush into burning buildings to save their children.
Inclusive Fitness
Abnormally low levels of this neurotransmitter have been linked with suicide, mood disorders, alcoholism, and impulsive violent behavior?
Serotonin
Used by Moffitt, the maturity gap refers to the difference between a person’s biological age and this.
An absence of emotional arousal is a characterization of this type of violence.
Instrumental Violence
Mednick, Gabrielli, and Hutchings (1983, 1984) researched the possible link between heredity and crime which became known as this study.
The Danish Adoption Study
This concept may account for the actions of individuals who help people who are genetically unrelated to themselves.
Reciprocal cooperation
This subcortical structure processes emotional information from the environment and plays a role in somatic memory.
Amygdala
This childhood externalizing disorder is characterized by angry/irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior, and vindictiveness.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Individuals who create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input have this.
Cognitive Bias
A characteristic or trait that is under the influence of multiple genes. (Diana Fishbein (2001) believed this in regards to criminal behavior)
Polygenic
According to the evolutionary psychology theory advanced by Kanazawa (2003), the decline in the age–crime curve for males occurs when men do this.
Have their first child
In this process, individuals learn to initiate or inhibit certain behaviors in response to aversive stimuli.
Analyses of the characteristics of school shooters have identified this as a potential warning sign.
Peer Rejection