FORENSIC studies Flashcards
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Farrington
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LIMITATION TO EYSNECK’S CRIMINAL PERSONALITY THEORY
- 16 studies reviewed
- offenders were scored on extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism
- They scored high on psychoticism and neuroticism but NOT on extraversion
2
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Gudjonsson + Sigurdsson
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- 128 juvenile offenders asked about whether they thought they would be caught for the crime they committed
- 36% were confident they wouldn’t get caught
- 38% did not consider the consequences
3
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Schonenberg & Justye
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SUPPORT FOR HOSTILE ATTRIBUTION BIAS
- Presented 55 violent offenders with images of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions.
- When compared with a matched control group of non-aggressive participants, the violent offenders were significantly more likely to perceive the images as angry and hostile.
4
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Barbaree
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SUPPORT FOR MINIMILISATION
- 26 convicted rapists
- 54% denied they’d committed an offence at all
- 40% minimised the harm they had caused to the victim.
5
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Hasmall
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SUPPORT FOR MINIMILISATION
- 35% of a sample of child molesters argued that the crime they had committed was non-sexual (‘they were just being affectionate’)
- 36% stated the victim had consented
6
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Osborne and West
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SUPPORT FOR DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION THEORY
- Conviction rates of sons of fathers with criminal records vs fathers of no criminal records compared
- 40% of sons of fathers with a criminal conviction had committed a crime by 18
- 13% of sons of non-crime fathers had.