Offender Profining And Biological Explanations Flashcards
Who found evidence of an organised criminal but not a disorganised one?
Canter
How many people was the top down approach based on?
36
What is the term given for the idea that a criminal will interact in the same way with victims as he/she does with others in their non-criminal life?
Interactionism
What is the term given for using the location of the crime to determine the potential home of the offender?
Geographical profiling
Who found no evidence for Lombroso’s theory after studying the skulls of 3000 criminals and 3000 non-criminals?
Goring
Who found concordance rates of 33% for MZ and 12% for DZ in offending behaviour?
Christiansen
What two genes have been linked to criminal behaviour?
CDH-13
MAOA
Who found that murderers had different brains to non-murderers?
Raine
Who found that criminals could ‘switch on’ empathy?
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What is the name of the model that argues behaviour is caused by genetic predisposition as well as an environmental trigger?
Diathesis stress model
