psychdynamic explan of offedning

• psychdynamic approach - created by freud
• super ego - tries to balence the id and ego
• blackburn - weak superego - deviant superego - strong superego
• weak - found in those with no same sex parent can't internalise a moral code and they would have fewer inhibitions towards crime
• deviant super ego - those whos same sex parent is immoral - superego is less responsive to crime
• overharsh superego - feel guilty have the need to self punish turn to crime
• defence mechanisms to explain offending behaviour
• displacement - putting anger on another object
• repression - push down thoughts into unconscious
• denial - ignoring that the harmful event occured
• englander displaced agression in offenders might explain antisocial behaviour - cannot control agression so commit crimes
• most people can repress and deny urges - but a triggering incident might release these feelings
• weakness of psychodynamic - hard to scientifically test
• weakness - use of case studies - qualitative and harder to generalise
• bowlby - iwm can lead to crime
• maternal deprivation can lead to affectionless psychopathy
• 44 theives study - 12/14 thieves had maternal deprivation
• con - some things are not falisfiable and therfore limits reliability and validity