Developmental 1
This term refers to behavior that violates the law committed by juveniles and reflects the differing goals of juvenile and adult courts.
What is delinquency?
What phenomena is characterized by a "sharp increase in delinquent offending beginning in early adolescence, a peak of delinquency during mid-adolescence, and a steep decline of delinquency during early adulthood?"
What is the age-crime curve?
What are the two "great pillars" of early psychology?
What are intelligence and temperament?
Freud proposed that the personality is made up of these three components.
What are the id, ego, and super ego?
Research suggests there is a positive relationship between this chronic neurological condition and antisocial behavior in children.
What is ADHD?
What are the two developmental pathways proposed by Moffitt in her dual pathway theory?
What are adolescence-limited and life-course persistent?
What term is defined as "the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment?"
What is intelligence?
According to Freud, these types of personalities are caused when either the id or superego becomes dominant over the ego?
What are abnormal personalities?
Research shows that youth with ADHD in addition to these are more likely to offend as they become adults.
What are conduct disorders?
Which of the pathways discussed by Moffitt could be described as a pathway where "prosocial development is temporarily derailed" in an individual?
What is adolescent-limited?
What term refers to the "constitutionally based individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, influenced over time by genes, maturation, and experience?"
What is temperament?
What is the current model of the personality used by psychologists?
What is the OCEAN model?
What are the two "super traits" identified by Agnew in his general theory (or "super traits" theory) of crime?
What are irritability and low self-control?
Sampson and Laub's Aged Graded theory proposes that the accumulation of this provides an incentive to conform to pro-social behavior.
What is social capital?
What is described by this definition, "a complex mix of emotional and cognitive mechanisms acquired by internalizing the moral rules of one’s social group in the ongoing socialization process?"
What is the conscience?
What can be described as a mental health disorder that is exhibited by individuals who have a disregard for others?
What is antisocial personality disorder?
What are the 5 life domains that can contain possible crime-generating factors as described by Agnew in his Super Traits theory?
What are personality, family, school, peers, and work?
According to Sampson and Laub, these are transitional events in life that may may have a significant impact on antisocial/prosocial tendencies.
What are turning points?
Which bodily system is the physiological basis for the conscience?
What is the autonomic nervous system?
While the majority of individuals with mental illness do not commit criminal behavior, research suggest this mental illness is most associated with criminal behavior.
What is schizophrenia?