Cognitive explanations of offending evaluation

Question 1

What did Palmer and Hollin compare?

Answer 1

moral reasoning between female and male non-offenders and offenders using the socio-moral dilemma related questions

Question 2

What did Palmer and Hollin find?

Answer 2

the criminal group showed less mature moral reasoning than the non-criminal group, supporting Kohlbergs theory

Question 3

What did Gibbs propose?

Answer 3

a revised version of k’s theory compromising of both mature and immature reasoning

Question 4

What did Gibbs argue?

Answer 4

that the pre-conventional level should be abandoned as it is culturally biased and did not represent the natural maturational stage of cognitive development

Question 5

What did Reid et al find?

Answer 5

individuals who committed crimes for financial gain such as robbery were more likely to show pre-conventional moral reasoning than those convicted of murder etc

Question 6

What are cognitive explanations?

Answer 6

descriptive not explanatory