Juvenile Delinquent Behavior Template

Juvenile Delinquent Behavior Template
Psychological and Sociological Criminology Theories
Instructions
Review the profiles of each juvenile on the Listverse Top 10 Young Killers list.
Provide original, accurate, and complete summaries of each psychological and sociological criminology theory.
Match one or more juveniles with the criminology theory that best explains the child’s behavior. The same child may be used more than once but avoid matching the same child repeatedly to most or all of the theories.
Explain your choice of theory in each case. This matching task is open to interpretation, so provide strong reasoning for your choice.
Provide complete responses in all table columns and rows.
Psychological Theories
Criminology Theory

Summarize Each Theory

Match the Childto the Theory

Explain Why YouChose the Theory

Psychodynamic Theory

Psychodynamic theory states that events in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality. Events that occur in childhood can remain in the unconscious, and cause problems as adults.

Craig Price

Craig killed Joan Heaton (39), along with her two daughters, Jennifer (10) and Melissa (8). Events such as childhood abuse played a key role in his crime.

Behavioral Theory

Behavioral theory which is also known as behavioral psychology is a theory of learning whereby individual behaviors are learned through day-to-day interactions with the environment through a process called conditioning. It argues that one’s behaviors is simply a response to environmental stimuli.

Eric Smith
January 22, 1980;
Joshua Phillips
March 17, 1984; and
Lionel Tate
January 30, 1987

Joshua Philips killed a boy named Clifton and hid him under the bed. Eric Smith killed a bully. From a behavioral perspective crime such as these ones are learned responses to life major situations. Their aggressive behaviors must have been modelled by three primary sources: (1) family interaction, (2) environmental experiences, and (3) the mass media. Lionel Tate killed Tiffany Eunick because he was imitating a wrestling match he had watched on TV.

Moral Development Theory

Proposed Kohlberg ...