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Aims:
- Understand the make-up of criminal personality.
- Establish techniques that could be used to alter the personality disorders that produce crime.
- Encourage understanding of legal responsibility.
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Participants:
Method:
- 255 males with a variety of backgrounds.
- composed of offenders who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity, as well as roughly equal numbers of convicted criminals who were not confined to an institution.
- Using interviews over a period of several years.
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Criminals..
- Are restless, dissatisfied and irritable
- Considers requests from authority figues as impositions.
- Continually set themselves apart from others.
- Want to live a life of excitement, at any cost.
- Are habitually angry, as a way of life.
- Lack empathy.
- Feel no obligation to anyone or anything other than their own interests.
- Are poor at responsible decision-making.
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How many participants completed the study? and how many genuinely changed?
- 30 participants completed the study.
- Only 9 genuinely changed.
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Why did Yochelson and Samenow acknowledge that some participants may of lied?
Participants gave answers they thought would help their situation improve, when the doctors began the study.
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Thinking error could be part of a modern day diagnosis of..
anti-social personality disorder, considered to be exceptionally difficult to treat.
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How many thinking patterns were distinguished?
52. Considered to be 'errors' although not exclusive to criminals, thery weree displayed more by criminals.
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