Psy 270 Week 1 Crime Research Paper
Week 5 Discussion 1
Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 10 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.
Activity: Crime Prevention. Medical Focus – Brain Dysfunction
Activity: Crime Prevention. Crime Prevention – Social Capital & Human Capital
Critical Thinking: Create a Crime Prevention Program (Reduce Poverty).
Critical Thinking: Re-entry Programs
Is crime caused by brain malfunction? Most efforts to fight crime focuses on sociological approaches like counseling, and rehabilitation. It also includes better parenting and education to prevent at risk children from becoming delinquents and criminals. These are good approaches but fail to acknowledge one thing. Most criminals suffer from brain dysfunction. Research has shown this dysfunction is the leading cause of dyslogic, which is lack of insight and foresight. They also show a lack of empathy, low anger threshold, poor social skills, and lack of remorse. They show no fear and do not realize consequences to their actions (CT, 2008). Some of this can be attributed to their genes. Geneticists claim that human behavior is the result of gene-environment interaction, meaning that behavior results from both genetic and …show more content…
Linking brain dysfunction to disordered criminal psychopathic behavior. Crime Times.
Retrieved 09 August 2013 from http://www.crimetimes.org/.
Robinson, M. (2013). Crime Prevention. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc
British Medical Journal (1998) “No Longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head. Early Observations Of Personality Change After injury to the prefrontal cortex. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine Bethesda MD Retrieved on 10 August 2013 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114479/
Gazzaniga, M. (2005). The ethical brain. New York: Dana Press. Retrieved on 10-August-2013 from
Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 10 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.
Activity: Crime Prevention. Medical Focus – Brain Dysfunction
Activity: Crime Prevention. Crime Prevention – Social Capital & Human Capital
Critical Thinking: Create a Crime Prevention Program (Reduce Poverty).
Critical Thinking: Re-entry Programs
Is crime caused by brain malfunction? Most efforts to fight crime focuses on sociological approaches like counseling, and rehabilitation. It also includes better parenting and education to prevent at risk children from becoming delinquents and criminals. These are good approaches but fail to acknowledge one thing. Most criminals suffer from brain dysfunction. Research has shown this dysfunction is the leading cause of dyslogic, which is lack of insight and foresight. They also show a lack of empathy, low anger threshold, poor social skills, and lack of remorse. They show no fear and do not realize consequences to their actions (CT, 2008). Some of this can be attributed to their genes. Geneticists claim that human behavior is the result of gene-environment interaction, meaning that behavior results from both genetic and …show more content…
Linking brain dysfunction to disordered criminal psychopathic behavior. Crime Times.
Retrieved 09 August 2013 from http://www.crimetimes.org/.
Robinson, M. (2013). Crime Prevention. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc
British Medical Journal (1998) “No Longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head. Early Observations Of Personality Change After injury to the prefrontal cortex. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine Bethesda MD Retrieved on 10 August 2013 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114479/
Gazzaniga, M. (2005). The ethical brain. New York: Dana Press. Retrieved on 10-August-2013 from