Forensic Psychology Flashcards
Offender profiling: the top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender
Six stages, including characteristics of organised and disorganised types of offender
Offender profiling: the bottom-up approach
Investigative psychology definition, three main features of investigative psychology, geographical profiling: circle theory, computerised geographical targeting and Rossmo’s formula
KEY STUDY: Salfati and Canter
Biological/historical explanation of offending (atavistic form)
Lombroso, atavistic features, method of examination with research, influence of environment, somatotypes
Biological explanation (genetics and neural)
Candidate genes with studies, diathesis-stress (epigenetics)
Brain regions (PFC, Limbic system), neurotransmitters (serotonin, noradrenaline)
Eysenck’s theory of criminal personality
Three dimensions of character traits, biological basis of each of these traits, how character traits explain offending, interaction between personality and socialisation
Cognitive explanations
Hostile attribution bias and minimalisation, levels of moral reasoning
Differential association theory
Social learning, how child learns, who learns from and how this affects distribution, degree of influence
Psychodynamic explanation
MDH, affectionless psychopathy, 44 Thieves, tripartite, Superego/Oedipus complex
Custodial sentencing and recidivism
Five aims (PPDRR), three psychological effects
Behavioural modification
Token economies with explanation, required features for success, shaping
KEY STUDY: Hobbs and Holt
Anger management
CBT, stress-inoculation model (CSA),
Restorative justice programmes
Repairs harm done instead of punishes, two main aims, Watchel and McCold’s theory of restorative justice (stakeholders)/peace circles
