Q.E 9

• Morally defective – persons with strong vicious or criminal propensities. They require care and supervision and control

  for their own or for the protection of others.
• PSYCHOSIS –It is characterized by infantile level of response, lack of conscience, lack of affection to others and aggression to environment and other people
• Schizophrenia – This is manifested by delusions or hallucinations or a clear-cut thought disorder
• Paranoia – it is a psychotic delusion characterized by incorrect or unreasonable ideas which can be seen as truth by people suffering from this disorder
• Neurosis – This is another common type of mental disorder linked to criminal behavior.
• Neurasthenia – this is a condition of weakened nerves that manifests in fatigue and nervousness and sometimes in physical symptoms such as pain.
• Anxiety – the person feeling anxious, fearful or apprehensive. The person may also be irritable and restless and has chronic tension, poor concentration and overreaction to noise.
• Obsessive-compulsive neurosis – This is the uncontrollable or irresistible impulse to do something.
• Kleptomania – The compulsive desire to steal.
• Dipsomania – the compulsive desire to drink alcohol.
• Homicidal compulsion – the irresistible urge to kill somebody.
• Hysteria – This refers to an unhealthy or senseless emotional outburst coupled with violent emotional outbreaks.
• Phobia – It is generally called exaggerated fears of things that normal people fear to some degree, and fears of things that ordinary people do not fear.
• Depression – People who suffer from depressive neurosis generally have feelings of pain, hurt, unpleasantness, sadness, rejection, self pity, helplessness, despair, boredom, pessimism, and rejection
• Epilepsy – This is a condition characterized by compulsive seizures and a tendency to mental deterioration.
• Differential Association Theory –assumes that persons who become criminal do so because of contacts with criminal patterns and isolation from non-criminal patterns.
• EDWIN SUTHERLAND – He developed the Differential Association Theory.
• RONALS AKERS – He proposes the Differential Reinforcement Theory.
• KARL MARX – He proposed the Radical Theory
• Differential Reinforcement Theory – According to acres people learn to be “neither all the violent nor all confirming” but rather strike a balance between the two opposing poles behavior.