Forensic Flashcards
1
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What does Eysneck say regarding the personality?
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- that there is a criminal personality
2
Q
How can a criminal personality be established?
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- the individual will score highly on measures of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism.
3
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What does Neuroticism mean?
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- 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.
4
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What does high scores on psychoticism mean?
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- the person is anti-social, aggressive, lacks empathy etc
- therefore more likely to engage in criminal behaviour.
5
Q
What doesn’t Eysneck consider?
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- there are lots of external factors that could influence personality traits.
6
Q
Supporting research for Eysneck
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- 2070 male prisoners and 2422 male controls.
- prisoners scored higher on extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism than. the non-criminals
7
Q
What is a contradiction of the supporting research 2070 male prisoners for Eysneck?
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- Farrington reviewed several studies and only found evidence of prisoners scoring higher only on measures of psychoticism.
8
Q
A weakness of Eysenck’s theory.
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- 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.
9
Q
Who said the explanation of moral reasoning?
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- Kohlberg
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