These theories highlight the role of human DNA, environmental contaminants, nutrition, hormones, physical trauma, and body chemistry in human cognition, feeling, and behaviour.
This is a psychological principle that holds that the frequency of any behaviour, including criminal or deviant behaviour, can be increased or decreased through reward, punishment, and association with other stimuli.
These individuals are characterized by disordered or disjointed thinking in which the types of logical associations they make are atypical of other people.
This term is defined as the attempt to derive a composite picture of an offender’s social and psychological characteristics from the crime he/she committed and from the manner in which it was committed.
According to anomie theory, this individual agrees with the goals but disagrees with the means and may be involved in white-collar crimes or property crimes.