Evaluate Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour. Throughout the history of civilisation the enduring problem of crime has bought with it huge social and economic problems. In order for a psychologist to understand the root causes of criminal behaviour it is necessary to investigate the definition of a crime. Although no one definition of a crime is universally accepted, because of political and cultural differences, it is possible to give a broad definition of unlawful behaviour. Roe (2003) classifies a crime as "a wrong against a state, either by commission or omission, regard...

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Cothern profiles the youth affected by the death penalty and discusses that prior to execution many of the youth have entered adulthood. ... However, some states allow the death penalty at sixteen and seventeen, while others refrain until adulthood at age eighteen. ...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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Attempts should be made by service providers to assess the extent to which a child experiences instability in the home as unchecked instability can contribute to delinquency. ... The final assumption maintains that behavior develops from a person's entire life experience as a whole as well as from particular instances and recent events. ...

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