Criminal

Question 1

Different types of crimes

Answer 1

Anti-social
Acquisitive
Sexual
Drug-related
Violent

Question 2

What are anti social crimes

Answer 2

Anti-social - causing harassment or distress to those not in your family

Question 3

What are acquisitive crimes

Answer 3

Acquisitive - taking something without consent or knowledge

Question 4

What are sexual crimes

Answer 4

Sexual - making someone else submit to sexual acts without consent

Question 5

What are drug related crimes

Answer 5

Drug related- trading or using illegal substances

Question 6

What are violent crimes

Answer 6

Violent crimes - causing physical harm to someone else

Question 7

What is crime

Answer 7

Any act against the law

Question 8

Why do crimes depend on the society they are constructed by ?

Answer 8

Because laws depends on the society

Question 9

Why is crime a social construct

Answer 9

Crimes are not real and only exist because of social interactions

Question 10

How does society play a role in determining what a crime is ? And what is deviation of norms ?

Answer 10

Society decides which behaviours deviate form the norms of society
Deviation of norms is when behaviour goes against what is socially acceptable in a certain society

Question 11

How does culture play a part in defining criminal behaviour?

Answer 11

People make a culture, so people decide on what deviates the norms.

Question 12

What are the four ways to measure crime?

Answer 12

Official statistics
Self report
Victim surveys
Offender survey

Question 13

What are official statistics about crime

Answer 13

They are where the Government House Office produces reports based in crimes reported by the police

Question 14

How is self- reporting used to measure crimes?

Answer 14

It’s used surveys to help find which crimes are going undetected and therefore not reported

Question 15

How are victim surveys used to measure crime?

Answer 15

They are questionnaires given to the general public to find what crimes have been committed against them

Question 16

How are offender surveys used to measure crime?

Answer 16

They are questionnaires given to the general public or specific groups to find what crimes have been committed which may or may not been recorded

Question 17

What is nature in psychology?

Answer 17

Nature is when we are born with certain characteristics or behaviours

Question 18

What is nurture in psychology ?

Answer 18

Nurture is when we learn characteristics and beh Iouri from our experiences

Question 19

What are the key stages to the social learning theory?

Answer 19

Identification
Imitation
Vicarious reinforcement
Direct reinforcement
Internalisation

Question 20

What is identification, and describe what a role model is?

Answer 20

Identification is when we choose a role model we want to be like, a role model is someone who we look up to (good or bad)

Question 21

What is imitation

Answer 21

When someone observers a behaviour and copies actions or behaviours

Question 22

What is vicarious reinforcement?

Answer 22

When someone observes a behaviour or action being rewarded and they try to copy it to try to gain that reward.

Question 23

What is direct reinforcement?

Answer 23

When someone is rewards for a behaviour or action

Question 24

What is internalisation

Answer 24

When a behaviour becomes a part of someone’s life

Question 25

What is the key criticism to the social learning theory

Answer 25

Is focuses on nurture rather than rather nature

Question 26

State and describe two other criticisms of the social learning theory

Answer 26

• the theory doesn’t actually explain how crimes are started or where they come from
• the theory doesn’t explain how society’s attempts to stop crimes through punishments have failed

Question 27

What was the aim of the Cooper and Mackie case study

Answer 27

To see whether video games had more effect on violence behaviour than Tv did on children

Question 28

What was the hypothesis of the Cooper and Mackie case study

Answer 28

Playing video games would have created more violent behaviours compared to others