Free will vs.

product of change social

Crime rate Prevalence
Age and . antisocial childhood
our environment structure Risk-taking
and delinquency
Status Index Incidence
offending
.. behaviour
hyperactivity/impulsivity
low intelligence/poor
adverse effects
make punishment as
harsh as possible of the environment
need to be addressed
offences (notifiable)
offences
Predictors of
long-term .. academic record
family criminal record

Treatment of
geography law sociology
Who commits crime?
offending
. family poverty
poor parental child-
rearing behaviour
offenders
statistics Criminology anthropology
Cambridge Study in
reduce temptation/ Delinquent Development
opportunity politics [Farrington & West, 1990;
economics Farrington, 1995]
Situational Crime and
crime prevention BPS Division of gender
Forensic Psychology
[1999]
Punitive prison Treatment
CRIMINOLOGICAL Women and Men and
PSYCHOLOGY crime crime
regime programmes

Gender bias in Male domination of

Treatment of criminal justice crime
system
APD
Is treatment biological
possible? Causes of APD Complex social
determinism constructionism
Should people with same interaction between
brain abnormalities as social environment
violent criminals - and biological
but who haven't predispositions
offended - be deprived Theories of criminal
of their liberty? behaviour
Psychopathy Offender profiling
[Mental Health
Personality and criminality Act, 1959, 1983] Brain
. lack of concern for
and
APD American approach British approach

Eysenck's dissocial Antisocial personality

.. others' feelings
loners .. FBI four stages:
data assimilating
Much more rooted in
psychological principles.
..
superficial charm/ Abnormalities in:
personality theory personality
disorder
disorder (APD)
.. socially skilled
callous
amygdala
thalamus
crime classification
crime reconstruction .
E.g. Canter:
'psychological traces'/
. Criminals = neurotic
[ICD-10, 1992]
Do suicide
.
violent towards
partners/children
medial temporal lobe
corpus callosum
profile generation
. shadows
implicit social relationship
extroverts (high N and E)
undersocialized
with underdeveloped conscience
bombers have it?

.
impulsive/lack of
purpose in life
prefrontal cortex
superior parietal gyrus
left angular gyrus Stalking
. between offender and victim
importance of geography
inability to low tolerance

. abnormal
empathise
. of frustration
commit disproportionate
[Raine et al., 1997]
.. Intimacy seekers
P = more strongly correlated
with crime than either N/E experience
of fear
number of violent crimes
.. Rejected stalkers
Incompetent stalkers
.
[Eysenck & Eysenck, 1970] Factor 1 Revised Psychopathy Resentful stalkers
affective and Checklist (PCL-R: Predatory stalkers
interpersonal Factor 2 Hare, 1991]
chronic and versatile [Mullen et al., 1999]
characteristics
antisocial lifestyle