role of unconscious response in development of criminal behavior?
I would like someone to help me put my prospectus together.
A case study on the role of unconscious response in development of criminal behavior?
I have done some research and I pretty much have an idea of what I want to write about but I just cant put my work together so I need an expert to write the work. Your main job is to justify the need for the study by exposing the research gap and show the potential of contributing new knowledge. I will provide an outline to follow. The paper has to be written in an academic tone with supporting citation/references
1st draft should be completed by April 7, 2020 7.00pm (will send back with revisions)
Revision should be competed by April 19, 2020 7.00pm (will send back with additional revisions if needed). If none is required, I will accept document.
The final document should be ready by April 22, 2020.
The final paper should be around 6000-7000 words (1st draft does not have to meet this word count but should at least have enough content in it)
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Dissertation Prospectus
How do criminals perceive and mentally represent the world around them?
The new topic is…………… Forced choice or free choice: A case study on the role of unconscious response in development of criminal behavior?
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This is the old topic, but some (not all) of the information here is going to be useful for the new topic, also this is rough work s disregard the typo and any other mistakes
Dissertation Prospectus
Introduction
Topic / introduction
“A case study of how criminals perceive and mentally represent the world around them.”
The case study is aimed at understanding the role of perception in an individual’s actions. Existing Literature propose that criminals perceive things differently compared a non-criminal individual. Unfortunately, this stigma has primarily been studied through the labelling lense as a result the current literature neglects to address how the offenders perceive and mentally represent the world around them something that is necessary if proper policies are going to be implemented to prevent crime. Numerous theories are used to support the research question for the case study.
The cognitive-behavioral theory of crime states that when crime becomes a rational choice, the offender will be motivated to commit that crime for personal gain. There is numerous criminological literature that talks about environmental factors linked with the perception of offenders (Edelman &Tononi, 2000).
The cognitive theory of psychology is used to explain the concept that criminal behavior is learned. This theory also supports the argument that criminals perceive and represent information based on what they learned from their environment.
Background of the problem
There are number of psychological and criminal theories that talks about criminal behaviors before and after the commitment of a crime. It is true that the mental state of criminals is different from normal humans. This difference is as a result of the environment one interacts with. The problem is that criminal offenders perceive and represent world in a different way that leads to unusual behaviors. Unfortunately, there is little to no literature that addresses an offender’s perception of the world around him/her (Dodge & Frame,1982).
It is also important that the behaviors that make an individual an offender to be interpreted for successful policy formulation. The way criminals think, perceive and represent the world around them can be used to device ways to prevent crimes in society. In the recent criminal justice system, criminals are labelled with the name of the crime they committed, and this labelling in society leads to change in perceptions. Regrettably, these labels influence the way the offenders perceive themselves different leading to their goals, objectives, personal achievements and everything they think to fall within the definition of crimes (McLaughlin & Muncie, 2013). The question under focus is how they perceive their mental states, and whether they understand these representations.
Theoretical Foundations/Conceptual Framework and Review of the Literature/Themes
Theoretical foundations/conceptual framework.
Cognitive theory of crimes, states that offenders commit crimes because of defect in their thinking process, thought process, moral encouragement and development process (Crossman, 2017). Changes or lack of these four factors raise a person to commit a crime. And these four factors shape criminal offenders thinking There are numerous theories that support the research question for this study. This case study is intended to reveal how criminal offenders perceive and mentally represent the world around them. Criminal theories that are intended to explain criminal behaviors, in different situations, would be used to formulate basis of this research. For example, “The labelling and symbolic interaction theory of crime”. This theory would occupy more part of this paper to explain how criminal offenders interact the world around them. The concept of criminal labelling was originated since 1934, from the work of Mead and Cooley, who states that self-perception is originated from experiences and social learning. They state that individuals perceive from the world and it is a dynamic process, in which they react back towards society. Thus, when individuals learn and experience crime happened around themselves, they learn this behavior and then dynamically react back to practice these learned behaviors.
Review of the literature/themes.
For this case study numerous available books, articles, journals and researches are reviewed to analyze previous work and gap in research work. The first topic for literature review is the personal perception of criminal offenders and then how this personal perception leads to changed perception about the world. The research perception aims to identify how criminal offenders perceive and mentally represent the world around them (Edward, 2017). One of the aims of this study is to analyze environmental factors that shape perception of individuals and their mental process, by implementing different behavioral criminals and social theories.
The second literature topic is mental process of criminal offenders specifically. The purpose of this theme is that for the effective and just policy formulation, to understand the mental process of criminals is crucial. The purpose of this study will also address some of the changes that can be made in the existing criminal justice policies where the mental health of offenders will be more preferred instead of the crime they commit.
Problem Statement
It was not known how criminal offenders perceive and mentally represent the world around them. Behaviors are learned. Individuals learn from their surroundings and then respond based on their learnings. Available literature provides that criminal offender’s mental perception and process are different from a normal individual and these differences are basically environmental differences. Criminal offenders perceive world negatively and these negative perceptions are raised into them by their environments. But how ?
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the qualitative case study is to determine how criminal offenders perceive and mentally represent the world around them. This topic was selected for a case study because available researches and literature shows that an offender’s perspective about his/her environment is one of the most neglected areas of criminology (Crossman, 2017). By understanding this phenomenon, it will be easier to prevent crime because almost all crime prevention involves changing offenders’ perceptions of crime opportunities.
Thus, for the effective formulation of criminal justice policy, the understanding of the role of perception in the decision making and crime committing is essential. The way the offender perceives the world is the sole cause of the commitment of a crime. Policymakers need to understand that offenders might be manipulated because of influencing environmental factors (Rebellon, 2006). Criminals act in a way that seems them appropriate without thinking about the risk factor.
Research Questions
The paper focuses more on criminal offenders and their behaviors. Thus, differently arranged but revolving around the same theme these questions will be observed and asked during interviews to check the validity of research;
RQ1.What role does perception play in an individual’s potential to commit a deviant behavior?
RQ2.How does an individual perceive his/her behavior?
RQ3.What role, if any, does the ego function play on perception?
Advancing Scientific Knowledge and Significance of the Study
Methodology and Design
The research methodology used for this case study is qualitative. This research method provides a rich, detailed picture to be built up about why people act in certain ways, and their feelings about these actions.
Nature of the Research Design for the Study
This will be a qualitative case study. Research Materials, Instrumentation, OR Sources of Data
Interviews will be the major data source. Conversations will be recorded in both visual and audio format.
Data Collection
Data collection methods are interviews and literature analysis. As most of this research would include qualitative aspects; thus, literature analysis would play an essential part in the research.
A. Primary Sources: The primary instrument used to describe the background of the problem (research question) is available literature on the problem. The available literature is an essential instrument because it tells us about the research gap and helps to direct a path for the research. This research study is intended to answer the question of how criminal offender perceives and mentally represent the world around them (Russell, Wutich, & Ryan, 2017).
B. Secondary Source: Interviews would be arranged with social scientists, primarily criminologists, and sociologists,…
