crime causationcrime theoryexplaining crimepersonality traitspsychology and crimeThe various theories that make up the psychological approach to explaining crime begin with the assumption that individual differences in personality, biology, or social interactions predispose certain people to criminal acts. ...
Alternatively, it could be considered whether intention attribution is rather better accommodated by a single-system framework. The main line of argument here is that the dichotomy proposed by dual-process theories does not reflect the variety of processes of human reasoning but that the two processe...
there is a growing consensus we need to disaggregate across terrorist roles in much the same way the criminological literature disaggregates across different crime types (Gill and Corner2013). However, with the exception of studies focused on the suicide bomber (Merari2010) or the more ...
In particular, causal relationships between these factors may be complex—for example, see social selection and social causation theories of mental health (Dohrenwend et al., 1992; Mossakowski, 2014). Treatment expectations may also be influenced by the individual’s socioeconomic position, with ...
These entities can then implement effective measures to counteract the impact of racism. In addition to the applied research objectives rooted in public sociology, this study seeks to contribute theoretically to the field, first by establishing a connection between several theories and concepts that ...