History and Culture (Forensic Psych)

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What year was the Criminal Lunatics Act first introduced?
1800
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What is the Criminal Lunatics Act?
act of parliament that set a procedure for the detention of mentally ill ofenders
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Who was the first offender to be detained due to mental illness?
Hadfield
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who did Hadfield want to kill?
King George III
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Who got the legal test of responsibility to exist
Daniel McNaughten
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What is the legal test of responsibility called?
The McNaughten Rule
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Who did McNaughten want to kill?
Prime Minister (Robert Peel)
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What year did McNaughten rule come into play?
1843
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Biological Positivism was proposed by who
Lombroso
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Biological Positivism year
1876
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biological positivism states
criminality is inherited
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biological positivism states
criminals can be anatomically identified, e.g. sloping forehead
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Galton
used images of criminals to deduce what the 'typical' criminal looks like
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Psychologist was first used as an expert witness
1896
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who was the first psychologist expert witness?
Albert Von Schrenk-Notzing
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In 1906
Sigmund Freud suggests psych has important applications in Law
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Hugo Munsterberg
published 'on the witness stand' book
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On the Witness stand book
suggests psychological principles can be applied to many aspects of the law
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On the witness Stand book suggests
psych can be used in accuracy of witness testimony, deception, false confessions, interviewing success
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whose ideas were diminished when they died?
Musterberg
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Charles Goring
dismissed claims by Lombroso
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what year was Goring influential here?
1913
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What did Goring use?
a control gorup
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The constitutional Approach was given by who
Sheldon
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The constitutional Approach states
criminality is associated with body type
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what year was the constitutional approach
1942
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who did Sheldon do research on in 1942?
200 offending males
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Sheldon (1956) found
60% delinquents were mesomorph
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who supports Constitutional approach?
McCandless et al. (1972)
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problem with Sheldon's approach
mesomorphs attract more police attention
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problem with Sheldon's theory
mesomorphs more likely to succeed in crime
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Bowlby
1946
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Bowlby's Theory of Criminals
Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis
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Bowlby's research population
44 juvenile thieves 44 controls
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Bowlby's research findings
JT = 40% were separated, 2% were controls
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Critique of Bowlby
prison is tolerated because they are desensitised to adverse events
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Jury Decision Making research
Mazzella and Feingold (2006)
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Jury Decision Making
advantageous to be attractive, female and high socioeconomic status
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chromosomal theory of criminality
XYY
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XYY
7/197 men who are convicted of violent crime
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Criminal Personality
Eysenck (1977)
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criminal personality caused by
genetic and environmental factors
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Eysenck used what kind of studies?
twin studies
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Culture - countries of interest
Both
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Czech Republic has
much lower crime than UK
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Violent crime in Czech Republic is
6.3%
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property crimes in Czech Republic is
66.6%
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india
top 10 highest crime rates world wide
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