Psychological Explanations And Ways Of Dealing With Offending Behaviour Flashcards
Who put forward the idea of an inadequate superego as an explanation for offending behaviour?
Blackburn
Name the 3 types of superego associated with criminal behaviour?
Weak
Deviant
Over-harsh
Who carried out the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development into the differential association hypothesis?
Farrington et al
Who found that convicts showed less mature moral reasoning than the non-convicts?
Kohlberg
Who suggested that intelligence may be a better predictor of criminality than moral reasoning?
Langdon
Who found that prisoners recorded higher scores than controls on measures of psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism?
Eysenck
Name the 3 stages of an anger management programme
Cognitive prep
Skill acquisition
Application
Who found that offenders receiving token economy showed more positive behaviour than controls?
Cohen
Who described prisons as ‘brutal, demeaning and generally devastating’?
Bartol
Who found reductions in reoffending rates and reduced post-traumatic stress in victims who underwent restorative justice?
Sherman and strang
