The ____________________ Is the Idea That Criminality Is a Sickness

question 11

Multiple Choice

The ____________________ is the idea that criminality is a sickness that can be cured through psychological intervention.

• A) Medical model
• B) Reactionary model
• C) Restorative model
• D) Deterrent model

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Definitions:

Gratification Delay

The ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, a part of the personality that mediates between external reality, the id, and superego, and is responsible for realistic and socially appropriate behavior.

Amoral

Lacking moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.

Ego And Id

Fundamental components in Freudian psychoanalytic theory where the id is the primal desires and drives, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the morals of the superego.