Criminal tendencies and psychological testing

Psychological factors underlying criminal behavior.

Evolution and altruism: Combining psychological mediators with naturally selected tendencies

This study integrates psychological predictors of helping intentions and naturally selected tendencies enhancing inclusive fitness for a more comprehensive understanding of altruism. Psychological mediators of helping intentions, empathic concern and oneness, and psychological processes facilitating kin selection and reciprocal altruism were combined in a structural equation model to predict pa...

Early Psychological Theorizing Regarding Criminal Behavior FREUD’S MODEL OF THE PSYCHE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Drug Testing in Criminal Justice Settings

Criminal justice agencies, and especially agencies supervising offenders not behind bars, increasingly use drug testing as a means of offender monitoring and control. The frequent use of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and alcohol has been linked to crime via either expense or intoxication. drug testing can provide relatively inexpensive and highly reliable information about an ...

Is Psychological Research on Self-Control Relevant to Criminal Law?

During recent years, scholars have asked whether scientific discoveries should have implications for criminal law. Specifically, some argue that findings in genetics and neuroscience will or should alter our assumption that most adults are responsible for their conduct. Criminal law should rest on a proper understanding of human behavior, and, therefore, scholars should mine scientific explanat...