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    people into their way of life. The crime that I will be focusing on during the course of this paper will be domestic terrorism‚ specifically hate groups such as the KKK‚ and various other white supremacy groups. The theory that I will be using to try and explain these crimes will be subcultural theory‚ but more especially the Subculture of Violence theory provided to us by Marvin Wolfgang and Franco Ferracutti. The reason I will be using his specific subcultural theory is because I feel that it bests

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    SOCIOLOGY To begin‚ Stephen Jones (1998) has received the policy implications of interactionist and labelling theories. First of all‚ he argues that they have two main implications. Initially they sugessted that as many types of behaviour as possible should be decriminalized. Secondly‚ they imply that‚ when the law has to intervene‚ it should try to avoid giving people a self-concept in which they view them selves as criminals. This might involve trying to keep people out of prison or warning

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    dream? There are many theories and interpretation of why are we dreaming. We usually dream at our REM sleep which is the period of Rapid Eye Movement. But we do dream at NREM sleep as well‚ Non Rapid Eye Movement. Our brain will still be functioning while we were asleep. The common psychological theories of dream are from Sigmund Freud¡¦s ¡§Wish Fulfillment¡¨ and Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley¡¦s ¡§Activation-synthesis¡¨. Sigmund Freud¡¦s dream theory is mainly stating that

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    According to James D. Orcutt‚ The Social Control Theory of crime places a strong emphasis on conformity (2011:97). Rather than focusing on the intrinsic or extrinsic motivations of criminal behavior within an individual‚ control theorists wonder why people choose to conform (ibid). Conformity is the idea of matching your attitudes‚ beliefs and/or opinions to match those of the people or groups around‚ in order to avoid being seen as different. When influences such as personal values‚ institutional

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    Self-verification is a social psychological theory that asserts people want to be known and understood by others according to their firmly held beliefs and feelings about themselves‚ that is self-views (including self-concepts and self-esteem). Because chronic self-concepts and self-esteem play an important role in understanding the world‚ providing a sense of coherence‚ and guiding action‚ people become motivated to maintain them through self-verification. Such strivings provide stability to people’s

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    psychologist to look at dream. He developed “his psychological theory of dreams‚ from his experience with his troubled patients and his own life events” (Moorcroft pg. 200). According to Wayne Sproule‚ Freud argued that a dream is like a safety valve that harmlessly discharges otherwise unacceptable feelings. He believed that dreams had hidden meanings that can be showed through symbolic images and even puns. Dream was seen as a language of its own. Freud’s theory of dreaming has three basic aspects (Hunt

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    Erikson’s stages occur over the entire lifespan unlike Freud’s theory. Kennedy was a man that believed that people in the world are capable of making it better. Erikson’s theory would conclude that the reason for this belief is that he successfully developed trust and had his needs met as a child (PSU‚2018). Kennedy was also the youngest man to be elected president which

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    Biological and Psychological Approaches to Crime I was interested in assessing two different approaches to the important issue of crime in society. The articles I chose seek to find different causes to crime via psychological and biological approaches respectively. In this essay I will summarise and analyse both articles and explain how they can be useful in the prevention of crime. For my first journal article I looked at ‘A Psychological Approach to Deterrence: The Evaluation of Crime Opportunities’

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    with the tag line Strong is beautiful‚ making the claim that girls who spend quality time with their dads grow up to be stronger women. These commercials can be viewed and analyzed through 2 of the 3 theories of gender/sex‚ biological and psychological. The first theory is biological‚ this theory is basically stating that sex and gender are the result of biology and it only really accounts for two genders‚ Male and Female‚ despite the

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    Multifactorial Causation of Obesity WHO has defined “obesity” as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that present a risk to health which may even result in reduced life expectancy. A simple index of weight-for-health‚ namely‚ body mass index (BMI) has been used to classify overweight and obesity in adults. A BMI equals or more than 30 kg/m2 will be classified as “obesity” which is now ranked the fifth leading risk of deaths worldwide. It has been estimated that more than 2.8 million of adults

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