Social Control and Human Models in Psychology

• NCJ Number: 115069
• Journal: Revija za Kriminialistiko in Kriminologijo Volume: 39 Issue: 3 Dated: (1988) Pages: 189-198
• Author(s): B Dekleva
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Country: Yugoslavia (Former)
• Note: English abstract

Annotation

This paper explores the possible contributions of psychology to criminology, but from a perspective which does not consider psychology as its 'service science.'

Abstract

In the framework of criminology, the question of relationship between the empirical nature of this science and its concealed normative content always exists. Using the example of various conception of social control, the author analyzes such normative contents which exist in psychology as models of human beings. Various psychological theories are analyzed and classified in four groups: intrapersonal, interpersonal, positional, and idealogical. 20 footnotes. (Author abstract modified)