JUVENILE DELINQUENCY CRIMINOLOGY THEORY PSYCOLOGICAL THEORIES

Juvenile Delinquent Behavior
Criminology Theory: Psychological/Sociological Theories

Psychological Theories

Criminology Theory

Define the Theory
(Define each theory listed in the first column).

Match the Child to the Theory
(Using the following link review each profile and select a child that aligns to each theory: Crime Library Website, located at http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-10-young-killers/).

Why you chose the Theory
(Review the chose of child you made for each theory and explain why you made each chose).

Psychodynamic Theory

Psychodynamic theory suggests that actions in our childhood have a great effect on our adult lives, shaping our character. Events that happen in childhood can persist in the unconscious, and cause problems as adults.

Jesse Pomeroy
November 29, 1859–September 29, 1932

Personality is shaped as the motives are altered by diverse conflicts at dissimilar times in childhood (during psychosexual development).

Behavioral Theory

Behavioral theory seeks to explain human behavior by examining the backgrounds and concerns present in the individual's environment and the learned relations he or she has learned through previous experience.

Graham Young
September 7, 1947 – August 22, 1990

Behaviorism stresses the role of environmental factors in influencing behavior, to the near barring of distinctive or inherited factors. This amounts fundamentally to a focus on learning.

Moral Development Theory

Moral development is the process through which children develop appropriate insolences and behaviors toward other people in society, ba...