Exam 3: Individual Views of Delinquency: Choice and Trait

The general deterrence concept holds that the choice to commit delinquent acts can be controlled by the threat of punishment.

People with pathological traits, such as abnormal personality, are at lower risk for crime over the life course.

Identify and discuss the three psychological theories of delinquency.

The _______________________ argues that the link between learning disabilities and delinquency is caused by the side effects of learning disabilities such as impulsiveness and the inability to learn from social cues.

Which of the following is not a personality trait identified by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck to characterize delinquents?

The __________________ develops through interactions with parents and others and represents the conscience and the moral rules that are shared by most adults.

Psychodynamic theory argues that the personality contains three major components, the id, the ego, and the _____________.

The _______________________ assumes that LD leads to poor school behavior which leads to frustration, negative self image, and acting out.

__________________ theory is the branch of psychology that studies the perception of reality and the mental processes required to understand the world we live in.

Which of the following criminologists is credited with the development of the theory of criminal atavism?

__________________ is impulsive behavior without the ability to examine motives and behavior.

__________________ hold that children will model their behavior according to the reactions they receive from others.

__________________ theory is the view that both thought and behavior have biological and psychological bases.

Research which links antisocial behavior to a person's brain chemistry, brain damage, and complications attributed to low birth weight draw from which theoretical perspective?

Children with ADHD are more likely to use illicit drugs, alcohol, cigarettes in adolescence.