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Who uses the Top-Down Approach to Profiling?
Americans (The FBI)
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Who created the Bottom-Down Approach to Profiling?
David Canter
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Who out of these Serial Killers are classed as an organised criminal?
Ted Bundy
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Why is Ted Bundy classed as an organised criminal?
He was able to maintain strong relationships and had a girlfriend
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What is a Disadvantage of the Top-Down Approach to Profiling
Profiling can only be applied to a certain amount of crimes
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What is a disadvantage of the Bottom-Down approach to profiling
There is mixed results about the reliability of profiling
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What is investigative psychology?
A form of bottom-up profiling which matches details from the crime scene with statistical analysis of typical offender behaviour patterns
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What is geographical profiling
A form of bottom-up profiling which is based on the principle of spatial consistency
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Which researchers came up with Circle Theory
Canter and Larkin
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Is the Bottom-Down Approach scientific?
It is more scientific than the top-down approach as there is a lot more evidence and focuses on psychological theories
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How many skulls did Lombroso test on?
383 dead criminals and 3839 living ones
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What percentage of people with Atavistic features had elements of criminality?
40%
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in what year did Lombroso publish his research?
1876
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What is a strength to Lombroso's research?
Lombroso is regarded as being the father of criminology and has helped develop more modern explanations of criminal activity
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Goring's research can be used as contradictory evidence when evaluating the Atavistic form. how many skulls did he research?
3000 dead criminals and 3000 dead non-criminals
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In Johannes Lange's study into twins and criminality. what was the concordance rate for identical twins?
77%
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In Johannes Lange's study into twins and criminality. what was the concordance rate for non-identical twins?
12%
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What is a problem to twin studies?
typically they are smaller sample sizes
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Whose research supports the adoption study theory?
Crowe
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Which gene associated with violent crime controls dopamine and serotonin in the brain?
MAOA
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Who conducted research into Candidate genes?
Tiihonen
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Which mental health disorder has been linked with criminality?
Anti-Social personality disorder
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What area of the brain is reduced when someone has APD
The Prefrontal Cortex
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Which determinism can you use to critique the biological approach to criminality?
Biological Determinism
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How many male prisoners did they test the Eysenck Personality Inventory on? how many males were in the control group?
Prisoners = 2070. Control = 2422
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What level of moral reasoning are criminals most likely to fit into?
pre-conventional morality
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Who proposed the differential association theory?
Sutherland
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What is a weakness to the differential association theory?
Difficulty in testing as it is difficult to measure pro-criminal attitudes (unconscious)
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What part of the tripartite structure of personality, is used to explain criminality?
Superego
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Which psychologist came up with the "inadequate ego" hypothesis
Blackburn
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how many thieves did Bowlby conduct his study on?
44
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what percentage of criminals does the ministry of justice say will re-offend within a year of release?
57%
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What approach is Token Economy based off of?
Classical and Operant Conditioning
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In 1975, Novaco suggested that cognitive factors led to the development of aggression. What therapy came out of this discovery?
Anger Management
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