Lesson 2: Emotions and Criminal Behaviour

Lesson Objectives

            The student will learn about...

• Aggression: Studying it from Many Angles
• How do we Acquire Aggressive Behaviour?
• Child Abuse as a Form of Aggression
• Dealing with Difficult People
• Frustration and Stress
• Emotions and Illness
• How Children Deal with Death
• Suicide
• Defense Mechanisms
• Nurturing our Positive Emotions
• Pets and Emotions
• Touch can Calm Emotions
• Criminal Statistics
• The Psychology of Victimization
• Violence in the Home
• Effect of Violence in the Media
• Youth Crime and the Young Offenders’ Act
• Kleptomania and Pyromania
• The Psychopath
• Sexual Assault
• Cults
• Criminal Profiles