Forensic

Question 1

What does Eysneck say regarding the personality?

Answer 1

• that there is a criminal personality

Question 2

How can a criminal personality be established?

Answer 2

• the individual will score highly on measures of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism.

Question 3

What does Neuroticism mean?

Answer 3

• it is how stable a person is, if they have a high neuroticism they’re more likely to be reactive and prone to criminal behaviour.

Question 4

What does high scores on psychoticism mean?

Answer 4

• the person is anti-social, aggressive, lacks empathy etc
• therefore more likely to engage in criminal behaviour.

Question 5

What doesn’t Eysneck consider?

Answer 5

• there are lots of external factors that could influence personality traits.

Question 6

Supporting research for Eysneck

Answer 6

• 2070 male prisoners and 2422 male controls.
• prisoners scored higher on extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism than. the non-criminals

Question 7

What is a contradiction of the supporting research 2070 male prisoners for Eysneck?

Answer 7

• Farrington reviewed several studies and only found evidence of prisoners scoring higher only on measures of psychoticism.

Question 8

A weakness of Eysenck’s theory.

Answer 8

• one personality type explaining all offending behaviour is not very plausible as there are many different types of both crimes and offenders.
• all criminals are not the same, meaning we cannot identify one personality for all criminals.

Question 9

Who said the explanation of moral reasoning?

Answer 9

• Kohlberg