Results for Turning to Crime (Forensic Psychology)

All the figures in findings from the studies in G543 Forensic Psychology: Turning to Crime

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Results for males in McCoy et al
Males who committed violent crimes had significantly higher levels of distorted criminal-thinking patterns on all scales than the control-status offences, and drug crimes groups
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Results for males in Palmer and Hilling
Male delinquents had significantly poorer moral reasoning than the male non-delinquents across 10 of the 11 questions
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Results for violent offenders in Gudjohnsson and Bownes
Had highest blame on external factors (5.8)
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Results for sexual offenders in Gudjohnsson and Bownes
Had highest guilt (12.7)
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Results for Raine
Murderers had lower activity in prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex than controls
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Results for Caspi
85% of males having low activity MAOA and had been severely mistreated in childhood developed some form of ASPD
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Results for Dabbs
10 out of 11 inmates with the highest testosterone concentrations had committed violent crimes
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Results for Farrington
29% of boys from a disrupted family were convicted as juveniles compared to just 18% of boys from intact families
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Results for Ludwig et al
Relocating families from high- to low-poverty neighbourhoods reduces juvenile arrests for violent offences by 30 to 50 percent of the arrest rate for controls
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Results for Williams
Following the introduction of broadcast television, the level of physical and verbal aggression in the children in Notel almost doubled
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Results for males in Palmer and Hilling

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Male delinquents had significantly poorer moral reasoning than the male non-delinquents across 10 of the 11 questions

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Results for violent offenders in Gudjohnsson and Bownes

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Results for sexual offenders in Gudjohnsson and Bownes

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Results for Raine

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