Turning to crime- Cognitive- Gudjohnsson

Turninng to crime study looking at the attributions criminals make about the crimes they have commited - Gudjohnsson

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  • Created on: 04-04-13 19:06
What is the aim of Gudjohnsson's study ?
To examine the relationship between the type of offence and the attributions offenders make about their criminal act & then cross validate earlier findings on an English sample
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What did Gudjohnsson use to measure the offender's type of offence and attribution of blame?
The GBAI
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What 3 dimensions did Gudjohnsson measure?
Internal/External , guilt and mental element
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How many criminals are in the sample and where were they serving their sentance?
80 criminals and Nothern Ireland
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Gudjohnsson's sample were divided into 3 groups, what are they?
Sex offernders, Those who had commited property offences and those who had comitted Violent offences
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Which group showed the most remorse for their behaviour?
Those who had commited sexual offences
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Little difference was found in which dimension?
Mental element
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Which groups showed the highest and lowest scores for external attribution?
highest= Violent offenders , Lowest = Sex offenders
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The only real differencce when the results were cross validated was what?
Violent prisoners ( which may be explained as a result of the violence prevelant in Northern Ireland at the time of 'troubles' in the late 1980's
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The GBAI

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