Personality AO3

Question 1

Paragraph 1 - weakness - non scientific methods point

Answer 1

One weakness of personality as an explanation of crime is that it does not use any scientific methods to support that personality is related to criminal behaviour

Question 2

Paragraph 1 - weakness - non scientific methods Example

Answer 2

For example, Eysneck gave male prisoners and male controls the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) , once Eysneck got the results -they correlated the results to the criminals as a reason of their criminal behaviours instead of looking at a direct cause that would lead to criminal behaviours.

Question 3

Paragraph 1 - weakness - non scientific methods Explanation

Answer 3

this would lower the validity because as by using self report techniques means participants could give into social desirability bias and this will affect the accuracy of the results. Furthermore, correlating the EPQ results and whether they’re criminal or not, doesn’t equate to causation, so we cannot certainly say whether personality cause the crime to be committed

Question 4

Paragraph 2 - strength - Evidence - point

Answer 4

Another strength of personality as an explanation of crime is that there is a strong body of evidence

Question 5

Paragraph 3 weakness - socio political implication - point

Answer 5

Another weakness of personality as an explanation of crime