Forensic Psychology
- Created by: mina townsend
- Created on: 26-02-23 20:10
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- FORENSICS
- profiling
- bottom up approach (the sciency one)
- + evidence supporting investigative psychology, evidence supporting geographical profiling
- - database is only made up of solved crimes, mixed results, geographical profiling is not efficient on its own
- statistical analysis of crime scene evidence detect patterns of behaviour likely to coexist over time
- interpersonal coherence - the way in which an offender behaves at the crime scene
- geographical profiling - aims to generate accurate location of offender's base and home
- data driven approach - aims to generate picture of offenders' characteristics through analysis of evidence
- + evidence supporting investigative psychology, evidence supporting geographical profiling
- top down approach (American one)
- aims to narrow the list of likely suspects of an offender
- organised type, e.g. above average IQ
- disorganised type, e.g. impulsive nature displayed in crime scene
- + evidence for organised category, adaptable
- - flawed, organised typology = continuum
- bottom up approach (the sciency one)
- explanations
- atavism (the racist one)
- offenders lack evolutionary development
- facial features & other physical/emotional features, e.g. high cheekbones
- + lombroso = father of criminology
- - racist, lack of evidence, poor methodology
- genetic and neural
- twin and adoption studies
- candidate genes - genes --> criminality
- diathesis stress model - genes are there, external factors trigger it
- APD - neural differences in offenders' brains
- less activity in pre-frontal cortex
- mirror neurons may not be turned on
- - twin studies = not equal environments, nature vs nurture, bio determinism, link between neural differences and APD = complex
- + support for diathesis stress model, link between crime & frontal lobe
- atavism (the racist one)
- profiling
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