Psychodynamic explanations of offending evaluation

Question 1

What did Freud’s theory suggest? (gender bias)

Answer 1

that girls develop a weaker superego than boys as they have not experienced castration anxiety - girls are under less pressure to identify with their mothers

Question 2

What did Hoffman find?

Answer 2

hardly any evidence of gender differences and when there was, girls tended to be more moral than boys

Question 3

What is there little evidence for?

Answer 3

children raised without a same-sex parent are less law-abiding adults

Question 4

What are there issues with?

Answer 4

falsifiability and therefore many concepts can’t be tested

Question 5

What is Bowlby accused of?

Answer 5

researcher bias as he failed to make a distinction between deprivation and privation within his research

Question 6

What did Hilda Lewis analyse?

Answer 6

interviews from 500 young people who found that maternal deprivation was a poor predictor of offending and the ability to form close relationships