Forensics Flashcards
Anger management
therapy that aims to reduce criminal behaviour by identifying anger + aggressive behaviour and teaching alternatives
Atavistic form
Suggests criminal behaviour could be a result of genes, and therefore some individuals were predisposed to commit crimes
Cognitive distortions
Faulty cognitions that lead to irrational thoughts
Custodial sentencing
Punishment that aims to reduce criminal behaviour via sentencing
Differential association theory
Suggests criminal behaviour develops through experiences and association with other criminals
Disorganised offender
more likely to commit crimes impulsively
Eysenck’s theory
Criminal behaviour was a result of personality traits, such as high extraverts and neuroticism
Geographical profiling
Investigative method to identify an offender
Hostile attribution bias
Form of cognitive distortion that may explain some criminal behaviour
Level of moral reasoning
Theory for criminal behaviour which suggests it arises due to immature sense of what is right or wrong
Minimalisation
Form of cognitive distortion which many explain some criminal behaviour - when offender reduces severity of their crimes
offender profiling
Technique used to identify possible offenders which involves reading a ‘profile’ which contains probable traits of offender
Organised offender
Refers to offenders who have planned their crime
Recidivism
Re-offend
Restorative justice programmes
Aims to reduce criminal behaviour by introducing offender to victim/victims family
Top down approach
Technique used for offender profiling, involves looking at previous similar cases an the criminals responsible
