Criminal Intelligence
Submitted by bwhitford87 on June 20, 2011
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Criminal Intelligence
It is possible that the link between low intelligence and offending is the lack of ability to handle abstract concepts, probably because of the poor ability to foresee the consequences of their offending and to empathise and understand the feelings of their victims. It can be seen that certain family backgrounds are less conducive than others to the development of abstract reasoning. Lower class, poorer parents tend to look at the present and do not often look or plan for the future, which can be seen as abstract.
In trying to explain the development of offending a big problem is that many of the risk factors can however, it is possible that in various ways high IQ actually...
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