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Problem
1. What are the major principles of psychological and psychiatric perspectives on criminal behavior?
2. What two major ideas characterized early psychological theories, and what was the difference between them?
3. How do personality disturbances explain criminality?
4. What are cognitive theories, and what three types of cognitive theories does this chapter discuss?
5. What insights into criminal behavior does the psychoanalytic perspective offer?
6. How does behavior theory explain the role of rewards and punishments in shaping behavior?
7. What are the policy and treatment implications of psychological and psychiatric understandings of criminality?
8. How can psychological and psychiatric theories of crime be critiqued?
9. What are some assumptions underlying the practice of criminal psychological profiling?
10. How does the legal concept of insanity differ from behavioral understandings of the same concept?