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Individualistic Theories
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Claims
psychological theory, Personality Theory
criminal
personality is
extroversion
,
neuroticism
and
psychoticism
extroverts seek
arousal
from
risk taking
highly extroverted people will seek out
antisocial behaviour
and
resist societal norms
Components
created his
Personality Inventory
and factor analysis to reduce the number of traits down to
4
compared
2000
criminals to
2000
men
prisoners recorded higher results on
neuroticism
,
extroversion
and
psychoticism
personality is
75%
genetic and
25%
environmental
Credibility
considered both
biological
and
physiological
factors
scientific
can be
repeated
and
generalised
evaluation of personality wasn't detailed enough
deterministic
Application
Nick Leeson
: committed fraud to make profits, enjoyed the
thrill
and
risk
of being
caught
Refuting Evidence
Halanchock
1979
: studied
Hispanic
and
African American
prisoners, found many of them were
less extroverted
than the control group
Mischel
1988
: personality is
context dependant
and is subject to change
Supporting Evidence
Raine
:
Brain
Abnormality
Rushton et al
1981:
children with high levels of rule breaking scored higher for
extroversion
Hare
2001
: significantly more
psychotic
people with the tendency to be
violent
than the rest of the population