How can psychological theories can be applied to different issues in the CJS (criminal justice system)?
It depends what kind of issues you are talking about…. Generally though there are psychological theories such as personality theory- see Eysenck for this. He believed that criminals were of a certain personality type- see wikipedia or something for further research. There was a lot of research on genetic causes of criminal behaviour but these have long been out of fashion in this area- it is believed for example that if the son of a criminal becomes a criminal also, it is because he has learned this type of behaviour rather than because of genes etc. Do you mean specific broad theories such as behaviourism/psychoanalysis/humaninsm etc???
