Key Q: Can Bio Explain Knife Crime?

Question 1

Define knife crime.

Answer 1

A crime that involves a bladed article that can be unprovoked or planned.

Question 2

How have cases changed between 2011 and 2019

Answer 2

Grown by 15%

Question 3

What is the domino effect?

Answer 3

One crime being committed sets off a domino chain of effecting the people around the victim and the offender.

Question 4

Give an example of a knife crime.

Answer 4

Daniel Pollen:
Unprovoked attack in public, died on the scene.

Question 5

How can brain structure answer the Key Question?

Answer 5

Damage to pre-frontal cortex can cause negative changes in personality.
Eg: Phineas Gage.

Question 6

How can the neurotransmitter explanation answer your bio key question?

Answer 6

Increased dopamine positively correlated with aggression. Amphetamine increases dopamine so if a person is a drug addict this may make them more likely to be involved in knife crime.

Question 7

Using psychodynamic theory answer your key question.

Answer 7

A dominant Id (nature) and a deviant superego (nurture) are likely to make s as person more aggressive.
If they get up in an abusive household they may normalise violent behaviour affecting their reality principle.

Question 8

How can hormones be applied to your bio key question?

Answer 8

Restarting positively correlates with aggression.
Dabbs + Hargrove
=testosterone levels positively correlated with the degree of violence of female inmates in a maximum security prison.