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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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