Week 2: Rationalizing and Justifying Crime—Cognitive Theories of Criminal Behavior

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Week 2 Announcement

Posted on: Monday, October 18, 2021, 9:33:04 AM EDT

Week 2 Announcement.

Students,

We are now working in Week 2. Please remember that your initial discussion board post is due by midnight on Thursday. All assignments, quizzes, and follow-up discussion board posts are due by midnight on Sunday (October 24).

For this week’s writing assignment, please make sure that your paper fully explains how the following cognitive factors account for criminal behavior by the Keen Family. In your answer you discussed the following cognitive factors (1) groups and authority figures, (2) moral development, (3) thinking patterns, and (4) information processing. Please be sure to use your textbook.

This Week’s Readings

Lyon, D. R., & Welsh, A. (2017). The psychology of criminal and violent behaviour. Don Mills, Canada: Oxford University Press.

Chapter 8: Social Cognition

This reading is online.