Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 11, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Charles M. Borduin, Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2000. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

M.A. (Clinical Psychology) / Criminological trends indicate that there is a move in the direction of sexual, violent sexual, and motiveless violent offenses in society. One of the aspects of psychological involvement in combating crime is profiling, where the scene of crime is analyzed to provide the investigating officer with an indication of the personality type of the person who may have been involved in committing the crimes. An overview of the literature indicates that the profiling of serial crimes takes place according to a certain process, involving an analysis of the physical evidence from the scene of the crime, the use of decision-making process models and crime appraisal, and the eventual compilation of a profile. The problem that has been investigated involves the dynamics of profiling in the South African Police Service using registered psychologists who do not have experience in the process, do not know how accurate the compiled profile is nor how the information at their disposal has been used to reach certain conclusions regarding the biographical details of the offender. A qualitative approach was followed in this investigation. The research participants were expected to scrutinise a case study of a real murder, and to generate hypotheses regarding certain biographical characteristics of the offender who was unknown to them. These data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire which was evaluated and interpreted in a qualitative manner. In general, the research participants were able to reach conclusions about the personality profile of the unknown offender. Consensus was reached without the participants discussing the results which suggests that the training of psychologists provides valuable insights and skills which enable them to perform the profiling task with a considerable degree of accuracy.

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the effects of masculinity on achievement. The California Psychological Inventory Fe Scale is used to measure masculinity. Results from this scale are compared with results on five measures of adjustment; Wechsler I.Q. scores, the Gainesville State School point system, and three scales constructed for this study to measure aspects of adjustment. The findings of this study fail to support the proposition that masculinity affects adjustment. The instrument used in this study to measure masculinity may be culturally biased. Further research is needed in this area using a number of measures of masculinity to determine masculinity's effects on adjustment.

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In this study violent and nonviolent prisoners were differentiated on the basis of life history and psychometric variables. Life history data were collected from institutional files and from a biographical questionnaire. Psychometric procedures consisted of the Mini-Mult Prisoner Questionnaire and the Bender-Gestalt. In summary, the variables included in the discriminant function suggest that the violent subjects were more psychopathological than the nonviolent subjects. The violent subjects evidenced behavioral problems at a young age in appropriately expressing anger. They appeared to have limited behavioral repertoires in attaining their desires outside the immediate gratification through aggressive means. They were also more emotionally alienated and less socially skilled. The violent subjects received more negative feedback during childhood and were incarcerated at a younger age, They were more overtly hostile and also more lacking in cognitive ego mastery. In contrast, the nonviolent subjects apparently learned during childhood to repress their anger to a greater extent. They also seemed to modulate their anger by withdrawing from direct interpersonal conflict.