The Criminal Mind: The relationships between criminology and psychology - Professor Gwen Adshead

Professor Gwen Adshead explores violence, offenders and the criminal personality through the perspective of psychology and psychiatry www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
A discussion of how the study of psychology and psychiatry relates to the study of criminology. Historically criminals have been defined as a group who are seen as "other" to non-criminals. However, modern thinking has moved away from this with developments in the psychology of criminal rule-breaking and discussions of how individual psychology can assist the understanding of criminal rule-breaking and risk; including approaches to rehabilitation and behavioural change. Professor Adshead suggests that these different discourses have much to offer one another.
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[@catherinegrindley-whitting7796]

very interesing and clearly explained . I really enjoy reading and listening to this Superb Prof !

[@michaelmallal9101]

I enjoyed this video and found it very informative. Thank you.

[@mauriceupton1474]

Anyone can suffer from a brief lack of self control at some point and commit a crime, lots never get caught, many are smart and have the resources to cover & hide their offending, it's the poor & mentally challenged that end up prison statistics because they cant afford a good defence. Money often buys justice.

[@Taurenwarrior75]

That kinda sounds like you're saying only poor and mental people occasionally have a lack of self control, and end up in prison. That's simply not true. Anybody can lose control/snap at one point; for whatever reason, and suffer the consequences of their actions.

[@mauriceupton1474]

Tony A​ Correct, hard to cover in a few sentances, true, but he poor and mentally challenged do not have the resources to buy a good defence so they are more likely to go to prison.

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

If u haven't already i recommend watching the dramatisation of the OJ Simpson trial starring Cuba Gooding Jr. OJ hired a "dream team" of lawyers but faced strong forensic evidence that he'd killed his wife & another. It rather asks: are the rich above the law?

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

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[@alwaysdisputin9930]

USA's _"public defender systems have long been plagued by underfunding and excessive caseloads. In Florida in 2009, the annual felony caseload per attorney was over 500 felonies and 2,225 misdemeanors. According to the US Department of Justice, in 2007, about 73% of county public defender offices exceeded the maximum recommended limit of cases (150 felonies or 400 misdemeanors)...The on-going decimation of public defense prevents defense attorneys from conducting “core functions,” including factual investigation into the underlying charges. In a lawsuit brought in Washington State, it emerged that publicly appointed defense attorneys were working less than an hour per case, with caseloads of 1,000 misdemeanors per year...95% of criminal cases end in plea bargaining. Excessive caseloads contribute to this trend, and result in a “meet ‘em and plead ‘em” system of justice, in which clients have little more than a brief conversation in the courtroom with a harried public defender before pleading guilty."_ www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/poor-rely-public-defenders-too-overworked

[@brendangeraghty8865]

Thanks for the quality, free education!

[@shakespearaamina9117]

This is brilliant indeed 🥀 Thank you for your lovely lecture 🌹😍

[@nancyhope2205]

Very interesting survey. Well worth hearing.

[@praaht18]

Excellent, thanks.

[@kifayatkhankhan8099]

Excellent lecture. Thank u

[@KINGKONify]

Very enlightening.It is impossible to change someone's distorted mindset unless they realise it's wrong and choose(will) to change it.

[@TheAuthenticIsOutThere]

Excellent Break Down.

[@a-jhartung627]

What an amazing Lady What an incredibly oblique mind .The wonder if Every Thing Living. having responsibility for the resulting harm it causes shows the truth that Nothing. exists in a Void ....thank you for offering me the right of thwas deep held believes. that I have held

[@tennilleallen9235]

Informative!!!

[@angelvictory5064]

Great lecture. Wonder if its possible to speed this up a bit.

[@primoenthusiast]

There’s literally a speed button

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

A psychopath creates a path to succeed in the emotional spiritual mental desire a sociopath is a person that is exiled and craves for social interaction that the individual once had

[@WildBillCox13]

Another worthy lecture and I thank the professor for her attention to the wider implications of sociality and authority. And a few apropos thoughts: Successful folks with supra-societal intentions are often able to place themselves in situations of control where their crimes appear (both superficially and, to the extent of their ability, legally) to be nothing more than ordinary reactions to extraordinary stimuli. Abusive Bosses, racist judges, objectifiers of every stripe (Rush Limbaugh comes to mind, though "rabble rousers" are exceptionally prevalent in places where mass media news organizations are not held to the highest ethical and moral standards), and "Hawkish" politicians, fall (or willingly insert themselves) into this category quite regularly, if they are high born. I would love to see all applicants for public office and law enforcement administration be made to undergo the same psychological evaluation they prescribe for offenders and abusers of the public trust. Uneven application of standards is a large part of the problem of defining what is criminal and in what situation criminal activity deserves sanctioned opprobrium. In the USA, our electoral college should be carefully scrutinized for aberrant tendencies . . . but you won't see that happen any time soon, because these are "made men" who are expected to be loyal first, and objective in afterthought (and in private). Beyond this, our press, our mass media organs, in my opinion, are actively attempting to keep prisons filled with "offenders", just like Hitler's press did, with gross misrepresentation of issues, uneven quantification of ideals, and highly subjective reasoning. It seems to me that the owners of said sources are either embracing psychopathy and sociopathy as goals, or, perhaps, merely obeying the dictates of the folks I point out in my first paragraph.

[@BadWolfSilence]

William Cox Rush Limbaugh??

[@nag_1818]

Please suggest some book on this topic....The Criminal Mind: The relationships between criminology and psychology .... Do you know about the Indian ruling class as Brahmins are criminal ...???

[@ernestsaahdinhofreeman271]

Justice is something that everyone want but how they can get what they want and the willing if those who are charged with the responsibilities to serve justice are matters of concern. Will the poor ever receive justice?

[@df224]

In the example of a tree falling an offense of the tree, I assumed the tree did plead the 5th.

[@jackquincy4778]

THIS WOMAN IS A WONDE3FUL HUMAN BEING

[@plumduff3303]

I had a pet tortoises years ago if I sang he would bite me...animals can be villains too

[@endieposts]

Criminal inclination and behaviour amongst the family Testudinidae is a growth area in modern sociology and criminology: a lot of social scientists believe that if we can understand violent and problematic behaviour amongst the Cryptodira sub-order then we will unlock the secrets to human behaviour itself. Especially in cases of lettuce theft, persistent and wilful hibernation, and criminally slow play on the golf course.

[@kimmster23]

@@endieposts love this answer lol

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

Ex given: the legal system has a way of catching or find a person even if they claim they’re innocent they go to prison like many with the same plea then once in an enclosed environment there are many of the same nature and the some of the other nature eventually come to a haul tans going segregated non compliance due to sufficient evidence within the prison as well as the individual that came accross the evidence therefore going to special need from a distortion of what all happened now is that a criminal mind or thought process some would say yes is it a bigger issue of course but it’s the perspective of the person giving the analysis that creates the criminal......😇

[@eviileee7945]

i wish i had the grades to study and persue a career in criminal psychology but i donttttttt

[@markcaseon7136]

If justice system is corrupt, then crime can create law.

[@user-yl1nq9kq3k]

vigilante

[@jackquincy4778]

THAT IS A RIGHTEOUS REVOLUTION

[@michaelmallal9101]

Notice to NSW Parliament - We the people love ICAC.

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

I don’t think there’s really a criminal mind but yet a means to hunt or survive the more extreme the higher in the pecking order that individual is in whether family organization business spiritual physical responsiblilty

[@michaelmallal9101]

Let's talk about count one and two of the Nuremberg indictment - 1. Conspiracy to wage aggressive war and 2. Waging aggressive war. All else is a distraction.

[@Nahamaboo]

Twitter *prevents* the public from *examining* the tweets and replies of *@maxrafaelwaller* and *@mrwaller3* that are *critical in evaluating behavior* - *Max Rafael Waller needs mental health interventions*

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

The criminal mind has a lot to deal with getting out of situations in a proper manner by creating or designing ones destiny out of the law of attraction

[@clementmariostlouis8926]

All angles to crimes must be studied: secret society controlling the police to charge falsely without the accused lawyer, sending to prison politicaly opposed member unlike stipendary Bristish magistrate who has direct knowledge of the crimes area

[@chiamingliu6746]

Good just don't know anything and that's pathetic. Find someone behind bars and they can tell you everything.

[@jackkabano5993]

some people kill because they have a reason to kill ( like killing enemies on the battle, Killing someone because you can't have their possession without having them killed, Killing because you're exercising self-defense, etc some other guys kill because they want to kill, they don't just like you, they kill for honor. these guys are innate killers. other steal stuffs they don't even need, innate thieves... you can't just say that all deviant behaviors are not related to someone's genes. some do.

[@michaelmallal9101]

It may be the boys lacked role models.

[@dong.7519]

I understand what you are trying to say. I disagree with 70% . Your intentions are noble. the thing here is everyone is equally guilty if a crime Is a crime. like a sin is a sin. the study here is based upon a very few that were caught. mostly lower income people. study a community that doesn't " brake the law" rich to middle class as intense as you have studied lower income people.

[@dong.7519]

90 % of crime and addiction deaths are in middle class white communities. Addiction is only a state of mind not a cause of crime like you say buddy

[@Kevin-hn7en]

Don G. A quick google search doesn't compare with college studies.

[@dong.7519]

dude I live this and study from all points of view. every teacher needs to live in the subject they study so that there judgement is not biase toward the braking of the law

[@traceydee8947]

Because your googling trumps years of education and experience. Ridiculous

[@liberval9425]

"Break"

[@thelistener8357]

Truthfully we're all criminal. Criminal is a person who break the government law or rule, sometime this people prosecuted and sometime they get away with it, but they are still perceived as criminals. So lets not be judgemental on some group of people.

[@BadWolfSilence]

Hello Again What do you consider being judgmental? I’m sure you are appalled by certain groups of people - rapists and child molesters, for example. Is that judgmental of you, or is it a sign of your morality and conscience?

[@waedjradi]

Most criminals in everyday life situations are either consumed by some intoxicant or some deviant external stimuli, like they're driven, even to the point of peer pressure. Majority of the time, I find it that most criminals aren't too brilliant nor meticulous when being committed to a criminal act. Which is why some crimes fail, because, let's be honest here. . . most criminals are not sharp-witted or clever. The only kinds of criminals who are extremely eclectic and intelligent are the ones who are financially stabled, in-stealth, and wealthy. So if you go out to wash your car and in broad day light, someone comes at you with a gun, at gun-point, and 9-times-out-of-10, they will appear nervous, shaky, and uneasy (which is quite funny); don't be afraid. Because they are obviously nowhere near clever.

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

The birth of a serial predator : it takes form in the mind spiritually by whatever brain waves are transmitted and therefore creates a flux with the spirit but does not taint the heart ironically and therefor creates a psychosis flux of three levels in being where two are fluxed together as one physical and spiritual yet the heavenly part remains in tact with what I would call the true person or individual would I suggest to detour those brainwave frequencies no it might detour the person or person so drastically damaging all three and therefore no help can come of this after all we are in the line of work of helping not fixing that I would believe is that profession of medicine

[@robopotato4391]

word salad

[@dong.7519]

I disagree. out dated train of thought. numbers are off on domestic violence. very bias view points.

[@cb4017]

I agree, so outdated! babyboomers need a reform especially in criminology. Personality disorders, malignant narcissism, family dynamics, attachment trauma with mother-father, and understanding that unwanted children become criminals, is what no one wants to talk about. I feel like Nadine Burke's study on ACE's (adverse childhood experiences) is pretty much where's it's at. This is really 19th century stuff that we shouldn't be fed anymore. (With all due respect to the lady)

[@brittneybabeee4031]

She clearly states that this covers the beginning thoughts on criminal psychological, not temporary thoughts.

[@garrettmartinezstone2655]

A psychosis is when your drug induced and on a spiritual journey a mental psychosis is when that path has diminished due to tolerance build up and then lived on a physical level therefore having a mental flux where u live a spiritual state on a physical level and a physical state in a spiritual level which is a distortion of reality of all levels

[@cynthiaallen9225]

Learn to spell, people.

[@chiamingliu6746]

Just like non smokers want to ban smoking whereas they know nothing about smoking, poor thing. A lot of things don't just come by studying, for god's sake.

[@aspireistoinspirebeforewee3519]

Is this sarcastic?