CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR:EYSENCK CRIMINAL PERSONALITY THEORY

Question 1

WHAT DOES IT STATE?

Answer 1

THAT CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR IS A PRODUCT OF NATURE AND THAT PEOPLE ARE BORN WITH A PERSONALITY TYPE THAT MAKES THEM MORE PRONE TO COMMITTING CRIMES

Question 2

DOES IT SUPPORT NATURE OR NURTURE?

Answer 2

IT SUPPORTS THE NATURE SIDE BY PROVIDING BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.

Question 3

WHAT ARE THE THREE PERSONALITY TYPES?

Answer 3

NEUROTICISM:BEING ANXIOUS AND EASILY STRESSED OUT.
PSYCHOTICISM: BEING AGGRESSIVE AND INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS.
EXTRAVERSION: BEING OUT GOING AND CONFIDENT.

Question 4

WHAT DO YOU CALL THOSE WHO SCORE HIGH ON EXTRAVERSION AND NEUROTICISM AND WHAT ARE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS?

Answer 4

NEUROTIC-EXTROVERT
>MOST LIKELY TO COMMIT A SERIOUS OFFENCE.
>CHARACTERISTICS ARE THRILL SEEKING,RISK TAKING AND AGGRESSION.

Question 5

IF A NEUROTIC EXTROVERT SCORES HIGH ON PSYCHOTICISM THEN THEY ARE….

Answer 5

VERY LIKLEY TO BECOME A CRIMINAL.

Question 6

ARE THESE TRAITS FIXED AND WHY?

Answer 6

YES THEY ARE FIXED BECAUSE THEY ARE PARET OF OUR GENETIC MAKEUP.

Question 7

HOW ARE THESE PERSONALITY TRAITS LINKED TO

OUR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM?

Answer 7

THESE PEOPLE ARE EASILY AROUSED WHEN THINGS HAPPEN IN THEIR ENVIRONEMNT AND LIVES LINKING TO HOW THEIR CNS OPERATES.

Question 8

BIO OF PSYCHOTICISM:

Answer 8

> AN OVERACTIVE DOPAMINE SYSTEM.
MESSAGES ARE SENT THROUGH THE BRAIN THROUGH THE GAPS BETWEEN NERVE CELLS(SYNAPSES).
THERE ARE TOO MANY DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS RESULTING IN EXCESS DOPAMINE.
RELATED TO HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE AS THEIR MOOD,PERCEPTION AND MOVEMENTS ARE ALWAYS CHANGING.

Question 9

BIO OF EXTRAVERSION

Answer 9

> LINKED TO THE RETICULAR ACTIVATING SYSTEM(PORTAL WHERE MOST INFO ENTERS THE BRAIN)
IN EXTROVERTS IT IS N0T HIGHLY ACTIVE THEREFORE THEY REQUIRE A LARGER STIMULUS TO GENERATE A RESPONSE AND STIMULATE THE CEREBRAL CORTEX (THE CONCIOUS PART OF THE BRAIN.
IN TERMS OF CRIME THE STIMULUS WOULD BE THRILL ASSOCIATED CRIMES.