CJ511 - Nature of Crime

Module 5 - Psychological Theories

Readings

• Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapters 4 and 5
• Online Reserves

Discussion Topic

Is the relationship (assuming it exists) of mental capacity and crime simply a relationship between two factors or is this relationship moderated by social factors?

Module Links

Too Dumb to Know Better: The IQ/Crime Controversy  

http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/criminology/psychofcrime/index.htm

Early Intelligence Tests and Crime

The Criminal Personality

http://info.ex.ac.uk/~PWebley/psylaw/person.html

Psychoanalytic Views of Crime  

http://www.cyberpsych.org/alcohol/

Other Approaches to Crime and Personality  

http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm

http://www.noah.org/trepan/

Crime and Mental Illness

http://www.soros.org/crime/research_brief__1.html

Studying Mental Illness and Criminality  

Does mental illness exist?

http://instruct.uwo.ca/philosophy/145/Nov%2016/

http://www.cchr.org/educate/ptudb.htm

http://members.tripod.com/Lee_Hardiman/szasz.html

Mental Illnesses Commonly Associated with Crime

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~avhorw/feb1/

A Note about the Role of Drugs and Alcohol

http://www.hsrc.ac.za/corporate/InFocus/drugs_f.html

The Role of Psychiatry in the Criminal Justice System