Chapter 3 Flashcards
Violence risk assessment guide
VRAG
Historical clinical risk 20
HCR 20
Level of service inventory (usually used in correctionals)
LSI-R
Sexual assessments
STATIC-99 and SORAG
Performed following a persons death in order to determine his or her mental state prior to death
Psychological autopsy
Refers to the search for general principles, relationships and patterns by examining and combining data from many individuals
Nomothetic approach
Emphasizes the intensive study of one individual, usually called the case study
Idiographic approach
Predictions based on probability and data
Actuarial predictions
Predictions based on subjective experience
Clinical predictions
Looks at the same characteristics on everyone (general)
Actuarial and nomothetic
Looks at the unique profiles- clinical predictions- hair color, tattoos
Idiographic goes with clinical
Using:
- Reid method
- Custody and isolation
- confrontation
- minimization
Accusatorial Approach
Using:
- PEACE model
- Neutral Role
- open-ended questions
Info-gathering approach
3 types of confessions
Voluntary
Coerced
Coerced internalized (when they start to believe they committed the crime)
What are the 5 myths of false confessions
- Innocent people can’t be induced to confess
- police investigators are often convicted they can identify truth tellers from liars during interviews
- relying on combo and intuition and corroboration
- people facing interrogation are protected by their constitutional rights to silence/council
- if confession was coerced and is admitted at trial
