Forensic psychology
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- Created on: 14-01-21 16:06
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- Forensic Psychology
- Criminal Profiling
- ineffective - no relationship between experience and expertise
- Alternatives - interview, psychometric, projective, (neuro)physiological
- Issues - malingering, faking good, norming themselves
- Lie detection - tell it backwards, polygraph, IAT
- Violence and Aggression
- can be physical or verbal, direct or indirect, proactive or reactive
- boldness traits of psychopathy + correlated with proactive
- Neurobiology
- Amygdala [no fear]
- Prefrontal cortex, especially OFC [no impulse control]
- can be physical or verbal, direct or indirect, proactive or reactive
- Psychopathy
- Psychopathy checklist PCL-R
- F1 = classic psychopathy
- F2 = sociopathy
- TriPM alternative - boldness, meanness, and disinhibition
- boldness traits of psychopathy + correlated with proactive
- More violence and quicker recidivism
- Primarily genetic cause
- No response to traditional treatment
- Theories
- Dysfunctionalamygdala
- Amygdala [no fear]
- Prefrontal cortex, especially OFC [no impulse control]
- Paralimbic dysfunction
- Response modulation hypothesis
- Dysfunctionalamygdala
- Psychopathy checklist PCL-R
- Mental illness
- Public perception is negative
- target attitudes when young
- relationship between MI/crime difficult to study
- some evidence for schizophrenia, TC/O symptoms
- Public perception is negative
- Risk assessment
- Unstructured Clinical Judgement
- doesn't work!
- Actuarial Assessment
- good evidence
- Structured Professional Judgement
- combination of previous 2
- Unstructured Clinical Judgement
- Sex Offending
- Finkelhor model
- motivation, internal inhibitors, external inhibitors, victim resistance
- predicting recidivism
- Structured clinical judgement most accurate
- Structured Professional Judgement
- combination of previous 2
- Structured Professional Judgement
- Structured clinical judgement most accurate
- Risk Factors
- Includes sexual deviance, previous sexual crime. early onset of offending, etc.
- Measuring sexual deviance
- Finkelhor model
- motivation, internal inhibitors, external inhibitors, victim resistance
- PPG, IAT, viewing time
- Finkelhor model
- Prevention + monitoring > treatment
- Finkelhor model
- Criminal Profiling
- Psychopathy checklist PCL-R
- F1 = classic psychopathy
- F2 = sociopathy
- TriPM alternative - boldness, meanness, and disinhibition
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