Cather Case Study Criminal Behavior

Jacob Perez is a six-year-old Hispanic/Latino male who attended the intake assessment with his mother. Gaston Family Health Services referred Jacob to children’s Advocacy Network due to presenting concerns with disruptive behavior at home. Jacob was not reported to have previous involvement in therapeutic services; however, there is a diagnosis of ADHD previously made by the client’s pediatrician. Jacob has also been prescribed Focalin 10 ml. and Quillivant to which mother reports Jacob is being compliant. Mother reports Jacob displays disruptive behavior since age two years old, three times per week, lasting about 10 minutes in duration. Mother described Jacob’s symptoms manifest as “yelling” “mockery” “anger outburst” “defiant” “crying

Toms patterns of his criminal behavior began when his family moving to a lower class area in Edmonton, they were poor family and his mom was unemployment because she was physically unable to work, his brother left the house when they moved to Edmonton because he did not like it, Toms father currently in jail and Tom did not see him since he was two years old, at the age of 15 Tom joined his brother to sale drugs and make easy money, at the age of 16 Tom was arrested by Edmonton police for selling drugs and theft, Tom dropped out of high school when he was 17, he didn’t not fit, he was bad and his mom could no longer control him, he went to live with his brother, who is selling drugs, ad knowing as drug house, by the age of 18 Tom had already

Client’s foster mother has reported the client’s aggressive behaviors occur daily at home and at school. The client has been subjected to witness domestic violence through his biological mother and her boyfriend. The client’s foster mother stated the client has moments where he is talking to someone (imaginary) and becomes visibly upsets by screaming “leave me alone”, in addition to the client’s hallucinations, the client experience night terror which occurs at least twice a week. The client is potty-trained, but continues to have accidents and when he is asked to change his clothes; the client becomes upsets and exhibits aggressive behaviors towards others.

Arthur is a16 year old Hispanic male who was recently enrolled at Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies. He and his older sister were raised in a single parent household with their biological mother who has a drug dependency. Arthur states that he has never met his biological father. He and his sister were removed from the mothers care by ACS as a result of both physical and verbal abuse rendered by her. Arthur was placed with his biological aunt at age four, while his sister age six was placed in a separate foster home. He currently resides with the maternal aunt and he refers to her as mom. Arthur has a classification of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Along with anger management issues. Medication was prescribed for his ADHD;

Many of these children are developmental delayed, delinquents, and have mental health problems (Chow, Mettrick, Stephan, & Von Waldner, 2014). They may also suffer from emotional and behavioral problems and often have problems with aggression and controlling their temper

Understanding the criminal behavior system and crime typologies that the book demonstrates; it is kind of hard to distinguish what type of serial killer Robert Durst is. Judging from the book examples of different type of serial killers, I would have to say Robert Durst is a hybrid serial killer. While some of his actions from the video series, “The Jinx”, lead me to feel as if he was an expedience killer who wants to protect themselves from a perceived threat as the book states. Some of Durst’s actions also lead me to believe he was a mission killer, who had a vision for killing someone. None of his victims seemed as if they were some random act of murder. I feel as if he had a mission to kill all of them.; one reason making me suspect

Ms. Clause’s family goal is support for her. Her son Aaron has been showing some very aggressive behavior at home and she has come to the point where she has no idea what to do. The first step was for her to fill out behavioral incident reports to see if there was any rhyme or reason to his outburst. When there was no apparent reason for his outburst, Ms. Clause met with the family service worker and positive behavior specialist. The three of them

Kayden’s father stated he does not have any current mental/psychological diagnoses, and has no apparent behavior or psychological issues. However, ADHD is prominent on his father’s side, and substance abuse issues are observed on his mother’s side (mother’s father). Per his father, Kayden shows no behavior issues that are not age appropriate, stating that he has never had a full on “tantrum”, and is easily redirected when upset. Kayden’s exhibited strength in this area is his overall “good” behavior. A barrier identified in this area is his susceptibility to

The first proposition by Sutherland is “criminal behavior is learned and acquired from the environment” (Van Cleve, Social Learning Theory 2017). Growing up in the poor community of Waterhouse, Kingston is the negative environment that has shaped Biggs and Wayne’s criminal behavior because the community is infested with illegal guns and drugs. As young men, their only goal was to be gangsters because their communities were crime-ridden. Around the age of 10, Wayne knows where to find a gun that he uses in a robbery. In the slums of Kingston, it is not difficult to get ahold of guns because they are used for protection by many young people. As mentioned above, Biggs and Wayne robbed a soda truck but prior to that incident Biggs told Wayne “he

⁵Kevin has early-onset traits that seem to predispose the aggressiveness, he was a violence-prone boy, whom had displayed mostly negative emotions, and he was physically aggressive as young as a toddler. Growing up, Kevin has often acted with reactive aggressiveness, which often was his defensive response to Eva, and he had repeatedly shown physical aggression, he destroyed Eva’s personal space which had indirectly inflicted physical harm to Eva. Kevin exhibited more direct physical aggressions when he and his sister was engage inappropriate of “kidnapping” game, furthermore, Kevin actually used a vacuum cleaner on his little sister, and eventually he caused permanent damage to his sister’s eye. Kevin often uses verbal aggressions, as a toddler Kevin use profanity on Eva, later on Kevin calls his younger sister with degraded names. Kevin may have also caused harm to his younger sister, as a consequence of elicit damage to his parent’s relationship, which is formed of relational aggression,

Marxist claim that the bourgeoisie choose what they consider is criminal and deviant behaviour within society. They say the proletariat are the main culprits of the criminal behaviour, and they and those who are in a lower class are forced into committing crimes to survive as there is no other option for them. The main reason for the high crime rate is due to how the system works. White collar crimes seem to usually be ignored while lesser crimes such as burglary, vandalism and every day street crime tend to be highlighted more within the public eye and seen as much worse. This may well be because the ruling class have the funds to provide good lawyers and the power to cover their crimes up. Because the working class are policed heavier, as they are expected to break the law more, they are more likely to be caught for any offences. Marxists value the norms and values of society believing that if you do not conform and obey the rules you should be punished. This is why schools, religion and the justice system (prison) are used to encourage people to conform to what society expects of them.

As said in the text on page 511, "although approximately 90 percent of people with mental disorders are in no way violent or dangerous, studies now suggest at least a small relationship between severe mental disorders and violent behavior." Going solely off of this, it shows that not all criminal acts are symptomatic of psychopathology. "Normal" people are the ones who commit most of the crimes. I feel that there are criminals who need treatment and those who need punishment. Some people are just mentally sick, and once they get the help they need, they can live a good life. There are some that can't be helped though, such as repeat sexual offenders. People like this need to be punished. I feel there are other factors besides mental illness that cause someone to commit a crime. I feel that a lot that has to do with it is how someone is brought up. If they are around a criminal type influence, they probably have a higher risk of behaving that way as an adult. Some people are just born with the natural drive to commit crimes, does this automatically mean they have a mental illness? I am not sure. There is such a fine line and it is quite confusing. It is hard to understand why some people can do the terrible things that they do. I think there is still a lot more for us to know and find out in regards to the minds of criminals.

“There is sometimes a fine line between a cop and a criminal. What drives their personality may be the same, and they have simply chosen different roles and professions to call their own.” – Dr. M.L. Rapier PhD, Clinical Psychology. Upon the first meeting one will generally have a curious mind. With this inquisitive mind a person will engage in two types of arbitration, conscious or unconscious. The determinations may very well be based on several characteristics to include attire, confidence, linguistics, ethnicity, and/or race. While some judgements are small others will determine the very category in which a person, whom one has never met, places you.

This paper will focus on the sociological factors of criminal behavior. This study will illustrate how society and other external influences drive an individual into committing crimes. Differential Association Theory and Strain Theory will be applied in this paper. Research by Agnew, Helfgott, Merton, Sharma, S., Sharma, G., & Barkataki and others will be examined as well. Additionally, an experiment conducted by Patenoster, McGloin, Nguyen, & Thomas and a story told by BBC will be used as an aid to a deeper understanding in the external factors of criminal behavior. The main focus centers around on how society and other external factors play a role in the development of criminal behavior.

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