COGNITIVE- PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS

COGNITIVE- PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS

• Kohlberg states with age, increases moral reasoning.
• HEINZ DILEMMA showed offenders to be on a pre-conventional level.
• CHAUNDLER: Offenders are more self-centered and show less empathy.
• PRE-CONVENTIONAL- Moral reasoning based on rewards + punishments.
• CONVENTIONAL- Moral reasoning based on external ethics.
• POST-CONVENTIONAL- Moral reasoning based on personal ethics.

COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS:

• Faulty/ Biased thinking helps offenders justify their behaviour.
• Hostile attribution bias- study in 2014 found…