Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Background: Researchers who study both attachment and criminal thinking propose that perceptions of the self and others explain why individuals engage in illegal behaviour (e.g., Bowlby, 1944; Mitchell & Tafrate, 2012). The purpose of this study was to combine these areas of research and examine how attachment views of self and others are associated with self and other models of… more Full Text: NURTURING DEVIANCE: EXPLORING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ATTACHMENT AND CRIMINAL THINKING PATTERNS A thesis submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts …