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Top-down

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An approach to offender profiling based on interviews with 36 serious criminals that uses the intuition of the profiler to determine likely suspects

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Bottom-up

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An approach to offender profiling created by David Canter that emphasises the importance of data and statistics from previous similar cases to create a profile

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Organised offender

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Someone who is intelligent and sociable and leaves very little forensic evidence at the crime scene

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Disorganised offender

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Someone who lacks social skills and has a poor employment history and leaves lots of forensic evidence at their impulsive crime scene

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Data assimilation

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The stage of top-down profiling where the profiler reviews the forensic evidence

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Crime scene classification

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The stage of top-down profiling where the profiler decides whether the scene is organised or disorganised

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Crime reconstruction

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The stage of top-down profiling where the profiler makes a hypotheses about the sequence of events involved

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Profile generation

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The stage of top-down profiling where the profiler deduces the likely characteristics of the offender

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Investigative Psychology

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The branch of the bottom-up approach to offender profiling that uses data to identify likely psychological characteristics of offenders

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Interpersonal coherence

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The theory that offenders are similar in their everyday life as they are while they commit offences - violent crimes are committed by violent people

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Forensic awareness

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The finding that the extent to which offenders covered their tracks can tell us information about their previous convictions

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Geographical profiling

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The use of Circle Theory to determine an offenders likely home/base

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Extraversion

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Personality characteristic characterised by seeking out new experiences

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Neuroticism

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Personality characteristic characterised by emotional instability

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Psychoticism

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Personality characteristic characterised by lack of empathy and excessive aggression

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Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

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The questionnaire developed to determine a person’s ratings for extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism

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Cognitive Distortions

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Ways in which thoughts can be irrational or illogical

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Hostile Attribution Bias

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A cognitive distortion whereby the person assumes ambiguous behaviour from others is aggressive/negatively-motivated

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Minimalisation

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A cognitive distortion whereby an offender downplays the severity of their crimes

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Levels of Moral Reasoning

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Kohlberg’s theory that claims our morality develops and evolves as we mature

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Preconventional morality

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When a person’s morality is motivated only by whether or not they will be rewarded or punished for their behaviour

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Conventional morality

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When a person’s morality is motivated by maintaining a reputation as ‘good’

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Postconventional morality

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When a person’s morality is motivated by their own morals and principles rather than consequences

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Inference

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Making assumptions about a person’s thought processes based on behaviour and self-reporting

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Differential Association Theory

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The social learning theory of forensic psychology. It claims we learn offending behaviour from our community and close relationships

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Pro-crime attitudes

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According to Differential Association Theory, children learn that offending is desirable - though they also learn specific moral codes around offending

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Learning specific criminal acts

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According to Differential Association Theory, children are taught how to actually carry out offences and which ones are the best

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White collar crime

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Offences that are financially-motivated and non-violent, such as fraud or embezzlement

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Superego

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The part of our personality that works on the morality principle

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Weak superego

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Due to an absent same-sex parent, a child develops this and becomes more selfish and pleasure-seeking

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Deviant superego

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Due to pro-crime parental figures, a child develops this and has a skewed morality principle

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Over-harsh superego

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Due to very strict parental figures, a child develops this and it could lead to actually enjoying guilt and shame

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Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis

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Bowlby’s theory that claims an inconsistent mother figure will lead to emotional, social and intellectual issues in a child

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Affectionless psychopathy

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A condition caused by maternal deprivation, according to Bowlby, which is characterised by a lack of empathy or guilt

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Phallic stage

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The psychosexual phase where the child becomes aware of their gender and begins the Oedipus/Electra complex

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Oedipus Complex

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Where young boys compete with their fathers for the affection of their mothers

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Electra Complex

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Where young girls compete with their mothers for the affection of their fathers

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MAOA-L

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A gene variant that leads to a desensitisation to serotonin

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Amygdala

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A part of the limbic system that recognises threats and stressors to initiate the fight or flight response

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Prefrontal cortex

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Brain area responsible for controlling moral behaviour - found to have reduced functioning in offenders

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Serotonin

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An inhibitory neurotransmitter. Low levels of this (or insensitivity to it) can lead to offending behaviour

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Atavistic form

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Lombroso’s theory that offenders are less evolved and this can be seen in their physical characteristics

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Somatotypes

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The theory that we can predict the type of offences a person will commit based on their body type

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Neural correlates

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Parts of the brain or neurotransmitters that are linked with a particular characteristic

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Custodial sentencing

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Where a court requires an offender to be held against their will in a prison or psychiatric hospital

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Recidivism

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Reoffending and being reconvicted

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Retribution

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Giving victims and their families a sense of justice by punishing an offender to make them atone for their crimes

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Deterrence

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Discouraging others from performing the same action, usually by punishing that behaviour

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Deindividuation

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A psychological effect of prison that removes the identity from prisoners

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Token economy

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The use of coupons and rewards in prisoners to encourage desirable behaviour

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Positive reinforcement

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A pleasant response that increases the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated

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Punishment

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An unpleasant response that decreases the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated

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Negative reinforcement

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An unpleasant response that increases the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated

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Anger management

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The process of trying to reduce feelings of hostility

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Stress Inoculation Model

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A type of CBT used for anger management, which helps the patient become more self-aware and more autonomous

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Restorative justice

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A way of dealing with offender behaviour where the offender meets the victim and tries to repair the damage they did

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Rehabilitation

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When an offender realises the error of their ways and changes to becoming law-abiding

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Copson

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82% of US police found top-down approach useful

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Alison

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Most police rated a bad profile as accurate

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Copson

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75% of UK police found bottom-up approach useful

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Lombroso

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Wrote ‘The Criminal Man’ and identified traits

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Brunner

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All males in one family were violent and had MAOA-L variant

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Raine (twin study)

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MZ twins had 52% conviction concordance, vs. 21% DZ

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Raine (neural)

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Low prefrontal cortex activity and amygdala asymmetry in offenders

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Caspi

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Boys needed both MAOA-L variant and mistreatment to become violent

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Dunlop

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Extraversion & psychoticism good predictors of delinquency

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Van Dam

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Very few offenders had all 3 personality traits

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Dodge

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Aggressive children showed hostile attribution bias

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Kenedy & Grubin

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Only 1/3 of sex offenders believed they had caused harm

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Palmer & Hollins

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Offenders scored lower on moral reasoning than non-offenders

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Osborne & West

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40% chance of conviction in sons of criminals, compared to 18% of non-criminals

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Bowlby

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12/14 juvenile thief affectionless psychopaths had suffered maternal deprivation

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Zimbardo

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Found that prisoner participants identified by their number

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Hobbs & Holt

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Boys who had token economy had 27% increase in social behaviours

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Moyes

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Recipients of token economy had similar recidivism rates

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Taylor & Novaco

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Found a 75% success rate in anger reduction

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McGuire

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Prisoners given anger management less likely to reoffend compared to those on parole

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Sherman & Strang

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Recidivism rates of 11% in restorative justice recipients compared to 37% in prisoners

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