- Acknowledgements
- New To This Edition
- Introduction
- 1. What is criminological theory?
- 2. Definitions, terminology and the criminal process
- 3. Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime
- 4. The extent of crime: a comparison of official and unofficial calculations
- 5. Victims, survivors and victimology
- 6. Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality
- 7. Influences of biochemical factors and of the central and autonomic nervous systems on criminality
- 8. Psychological theories of criminality
- 9. Mental disorder (psychopathology) and criminality
- 10. Intelligence and learning
- 11. The sociology of criminality
- 12. Anomie, strain and juvenile subculture
- 13. Control theories
- 14. Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology
- 15. Critical criminology: conflict, radical and cultural criminologies
- 16. Criminology and realism
- 17. Positivist explanations of female criminality
- 18. Feminist theories
- 19. Terrorism and State violence
- 20. Governance, risk and globalisation theories
- Envoi
- Useful Websites
- Name Index
- Subject Index
(p. 185) 8. Psychological theories of criminality
- Chapter:
- (p. 185) 8. Psychological theories of criminality
- Author(s):
Andrew Sanders
, Richard Young
, and Mandy Burton
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780199592708.003.0008
Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. This chapter considers psychological explanations for criminality. The discussions cover the constituents of the personality; formation of the super-ego; balancing the id, ego, and super-ego; ‘normal’ criminals; extroversion and neuroticism; criticism of psychoanalytical theories; the normal criminal personality; and assessment of dangerousness and criminality.
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- Acknowledgements
- New To This Edition
- Introduction
- 1. What is criminological theory?
- 2. Definitions, terminology and the criminal process
- 3. Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime
- 4. The extent of crime: a comparison of official and unofficial calculations
- 5. Victims, survivors and victimology
- 6. Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality
- 7. Influences of biochemical factors and of the central and autonomic nervous systems on criminality
- 8. Psychological theories of criminality
- 9. Mental disorder (psychopathology) and criminality
- 10. Intelligence and learning
- 11. The sociology of criminality
- 12. Anomie, strain and juvenile subculture
- 13. Control theories
- 14. Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology
- 15. Critical criminology: conflict, radical and cultural criminologies
- 16. Criminology and realism
- 17. Positivist explanations of female criminality
- 18. Feminist theories
- 19. Terrorism and State violence
- 20. Governance, risk and globalisation theories
- Envoi
- Useful Websites
- Name Index
- Subject Index
