06/11/2015-06/15/2015

Question 1

 Behavior in Adulthood

Potential Problems during this time:

Answer 1

• Divorce
• Bankruptcy
• Death of a loved One
• Loss of a job
• Alcoholism
• Drugs
• Loneliness
• Mental Health Issues

Question 2

 Prevalence of Adult Crime

Answer 2

• vast majority of adults never commit crimes
• The news media are full of stories of “desperate virgin offenders” who rob a bank, kill their child, etc.
• The truth: Rare to have totally normative individuals (at all life course stages) suddenly offend.

Question 3

 Criminal Careers in Adulthood

Answer 3

-Adult Criminals typically have made a career out of a crime

Question 4

• Urban Nomad

Answer 4

• Doesn’t stay put

Question 5

• Acquisitive Criminal

Answer 5

Robs to maintain basic standard of living

• Money they possess is often consumed recklessly
• Not technically poor, usually bad money managers w/ addictive habits. (Reflects heterotypic Community)

Question 6

-F-Ups:

Answer 6

Totally Inept (Usually low IQ) Most often arrested & incarcerated

Question 7

-Dope Fiends/Crack heads:

Answer 7

Steal to support drug habit

Question 8

-Outlaws:

Answer 8

: Fully & completely internalized criminal lifestyle

Question 9

-Thieves:

Answer 9

Planned Out; big Pay-off only

Question 10

-Hustlers:

Answer 10

Crime as a business; All of their energy goes to making ends meet through crime.

Question 11

 Career Criminals

Answer 11

• Commit a large portion of the adult crime rate
• Diversified offending (Diff. Crimes)
• Robbers also engage in theft, drug distribution, and burglary.
• Specialization much more rare

Question 12

 Desistance

Answer 12

• About ½ of adolescence are involved in delinquency at some point during adolescence; Many desist when adulthood arrives
• Many say social ties to additional institutions keep adults more “controlled” (ex: Marriage, job, community, etc.)

Question 13

-Biology of Young Adult Desistance:

Answer 13

• Marriage corresponds to testosterone drop in male
• Having children also results in testosterone drop in males
• Obviously, brain becomes fully mature, allowing for majority of adults to engage in rational, planned, pro-social behavior

Question 14

-Mental disorder

Answer 14

=Psychopathology ( a “sickness” of the psyhe/brain)

Question 15

-In general, diagnoses of mental disorders are made of symptoms that indicate an impediment to normal functioning.:TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

How The DSM Works:

Answer 16

• Conduct Disorder: (Cluster Pattern of behavior)
• Atleast 3 of the following 13 Present for the Past 6 Months:
• Often lied
• Set things on fire
• Truant
• Destroyed Property
• Broken into house, car, etc…

Question 17

 Resistance to Mental Disorder

Answer 17

Biggest impediment
• Basic rationale of crime and punishment rests on assumptions of free will
• Taking neuroscience into account necessarily complicates legal proceedings
• Advances in neuroscience lead to questions about:
-Criminal Responsibility/Insanity
-Diminished Capacity
-Mitigation

Question 18

 Intervention:

Answer 18

• If roots of persistent, serious crime are at least in part biological (as research shows), successful treatments for it might be analogous to treatments for those w/ mental illnesses (e.g. cognitive behavioral, medication (SSRI’s), etc)
• Resistance to the “overlap” b/w mental disorders and career criminality may be keeping us from preventing/treating crime effectively.