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| Question | Answer |
| Investigate the... | causes of crime, both social and personality issues |
| Using psychological knowledge to... | help us understand criminal behaviour |
| Deals with legal aspects... | Courtroom procedures EWT Policing techniques to judge criminals |
| Key role is... | to development treatments for offenders (in prisons, communities) |
| IDEALLY TO REDUCE? | RECIDIVISM! |
| Concerned with identifying? | Offenders (offender profiling techniques) |
| Learning and understanding to? | Predict future crimes (often with offender profiling and mapping) |
| Crime | Behaviour that violates social norms, moral values, religious beliefs and legal boundaries...AGAINST LAW!!! |
| Anti-social behaviour | Cause harassment, alarm, harm, distress to public members |
| Recidivism | Rate of reoffending |
| EWT | Witness statement, often used in courtroom procedures |
| Token economy | Treatment programme based on the principles of operant conditioning where rewards are used to gain desired behaviours (prisons / community systems) |
| Stereotyping | Generalising one view based on a few (classify members the same) BLONDES, AMERICANS |
| Modelling | Process of observing and imitating as a way of learning (watch and learn)! |
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