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16 J. Offender Rehab. 1 (1990-1991)

handle is hein.journals/wjor16 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Vol. 16(1/2) 1990 © 1990 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. El Focus on COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN CORRECTIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE A Neo-Cognitive Model of Crime Thomas M. Kelley Wayne State University ABSTRACT. This paper presents a new paradigm for criminologi- cal inquiry that transcends the field's present base of assumptions and theories. Herein, the principles of the Psychology of Mind, POM, (Suarez and Mills, 1982; Suarez, Mills and Stewart, 1987) have been translated into a neo-cognitive model of crime. The four main principles of POM are: (1) The Principle of Thought; (2) The Principle of Separate Realities; (3) The Principle of Levels of Con- sciousness; and(4) The Principle of Feelings and Emotions. These four principles or constants are shown to connect in an exact manner the variables of thought, perception, motivation, emotion, and be- havior of all delinquent and criminal offenders. Furthermore, these principles clearly reveal ways to prevent and reverse the process that results in crime. Finally, evidence in support of this new perspective is reviewed, implications for crime prevention and control are dis- cussed, programming models presented, and the possibility of a ma- jor breakthrough in criminological thinking, research and policy is discussed. Our current thinking about the causes of crime and delinquency lacks precision, and thus, our solutions have been well off the mark. A more accurate understanding of the causes of crime ap- pears to be lost in an entanglement of criminological theories and concepts which, while often clever and intellectually sophisticated, are more often misleading or incorrect (Cressy, 1979; Gibbons,

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