However, experts have offered theories involving causal factors range from personality problems to family, social, and economic considerations (Reed). ... The two most prominent are personality and intelligence (Siegel & Senna, 1991, p.106). Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1974, p. 2) identified a number of personality characteristics that characterize delinquents:  Self-assertiveness  Defiance  Extroversion  Suspicion  Defiance  Poor pe...

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Sam Vaknin "runs a website about narcissistic personality disorder" and says criminals use the insanity claim all the time (Vaknin). ... "DNA testing and other conclusive forms of evidence" are used ensure that the person who committed the crime is caught ("Christian Doctrine"). ...

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Secondly, the positive school relies strictly on the use of empirical methods to test hypothesis. ... Many psychologist measured deviance as an unlucky expression of the personality and underlined the index. ...

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