5-2 (150 words and 1 reference) Imagine you are a forensic psychologist. Would you tend to subscribe to developmental theory or critical criminology more than the other? Explain why or why not.Developmental theory

5-2 (150 words and 1 reference)
Imagine you are a forensic psychologist. Would you tend to subscribe to developmental theory or critical criminology more than the other? Explain why or why not.
The overarching purpose of developmental and life-course theories of crime is to account for the development, maintenance, and eventual decline of criminal conduct. Life-course theory, which has its roots in sociology, provides explanations for crime that emphasize the role of social processes and institutions (Badaan et al., 2020). Criminology’s developmental approaches lean more toward a psychological explanation, with an emphasis on personal traits and the influence of family dynamics. Theories of offending conduct’s developmental trajectory. To explain how and why criminal behavior evolves over time, developmental theories track people’ offending behavior across their lifespan. The focus of developmental theories is on how criminal behavior changes over time in individuals. Models that take the individual into account focus on the initiation, frequency, severity, persistence/duration, and cessation of offending behavior. When a person commits their first crime, this is known as the commencement of offending, while the point at which they cease doing so is known as desistence (Radburn & Stott, 2019). A person’s offending career can be broken down into two categories: frequency (how often an offender acts) and intensity (how significant an offender’s actions tend to be at given points in time).  Cont…