A2 criminal evidence
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- Created on: 20-02-17 12:15
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- Criminal Psychology-evidence
- Biological explanations
- XYY syndrome
- Jacobs-men with XYY were more aggressive than normal XY men
- Thielgaard- smalle presence of XYY men in the prison population
- Women also take part in crime
- Amygdala
- Cannon and Briton- sham rage in anaimals
- Brain Injury
- Williams et al- 60% of 196 prisoners had some sort of brain injury
- Charles Whitman
- Personality
- Eysenck-is possible to classify offenders by personality
- Stone-link to violent crime for narcissistic PD and paranoid PD
- XYY syndrome
- Social explanations
- Labelling
- Rosenthal and Jacobson- late bllomers study
- Tajfel-social identity theory
- Social learning theory
- Anderson and Dill- violent video games=aggression
- Bandura, Ross and Ross
- Doesn't take individual differences into account
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Madon-effect of mothers expectations on their children's drinking behaviour
- Jahoda-cultural expectations about boys natures and names given to them influenced behaviour
- Labelling
- Understanding the offender
- Cognitive interview
- Fisher and Gielsman-detectives trained in CI found out significantly more information
- Holliday- CI more useful than standard interview for children
- Psychological formulation
- Cognitive interview
- Treatments
- Bioligcal
- Diet
- Gesch et al- influence of vitamins, minerals and fatty acids on antisocial behaviour of young offenders
- Benton-falls in blood sugar levls in Peruvian children led to increase in irritability
- Diet
- Cognitive
- Anger manageent
- Ireland-92% of 590 male prisoners showed improvement in their anger management
- Howells et al- Improvements not always maintained
- Anger manageent
- Bioligcal
- Influencing eye-witness testimony
- Post-event information
- Loftus and Palmer
- Weapon focus
- Loftus et al- in a situation where a weapon is involved, the eyewitnesses tend to have their focus drawn tot he weapon
- Pickel-unusualness and threat effect recall
- Yuille and Cutshall- EWT inaccurate due to weapon involvement
- Post-event information
- Characteristics of the defendent
- Race
- Eberhardt et al- stereo-typically black defendants were 57.5% more likely to receive the death sentence
- Eberhardt et al-second study found no effect
- Attractiveness
- Race
- Biological explanations
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