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Mind Map by mobbsholly, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mobbsholly
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Definition of Criminological
Psychology
- Define
- a specialised ares that uses
psychological knowledge to help
understand criminal behaviour.
- Investigates the causes of
crime by examining social
and personality issues that
can be contributory factors.
- deals with legal aspects of crime such as...
- courtroom procedures
- eyewitness testimony
- policing techniques
that are used to judge
criminals
- courtroom procedures
- key roles to develop treatment
programmes for offenders
- used in community or prison to
rehabilitate and prevent recidivism
- used in community or prison to
rehabilitate and prevent recidivism
- concerned with identifying
offenders and predicting future
crimes using profiling techniques
- a specialised ares that uses
psychological knowledge to help
understand criminal behaviour.
- Terminology
- Crime
- the breach of one or more rules or
laws for which governing authority
or force may ultimately prescribe a
punishment
- often seen as socially
constructed/altered according to
historical, cultural and power
dimensions
- e.g. attempted suicide was
regarded as a criminal offence
until 1901
- designated according to age and intention
- Those suffering from some forms
of psychiatric illness are
considered incapable of this
aspect of criminal behaviour
- Those suffering from some forms
of psychiatric illness are
considered incapable of this
aspect of criminal behaviour
- e.g. attempted suicide was
regarded as a criminal offence
until 1901
- the breach of one or more rules or
laws for which governing authority
or force may ultimately prescribe a
punishment
- Recidivism
- rate of criminal reoffending
- rate of criminal reoffending
- Modelling
- a way of learning by imitating the behaviours of others
- a way of learning by imitating the behaviours of others
- Token Economy
- a treatment that involves giving secondary
reinforcement for desirable behaviour
- that can be saved and exchanged
for primary reinforcement
- that can be saved and exchanged
for primary reinforcement
- a treatment that involves giving secondary
reinforcement for desirable behaviour
- Anti-social behaviour
- virtually any intimidating or
threatening activity that scare
you or damages your quality of
life
- rowdy, noisy behaviour, 'yoobish'
- rowdy, noisy behaviour, 'yoobish'
- ASBO
- virtually any intimidating or
threatening activity that scare
you or damages your quality of
life
- Stereotyping
- classifying members of a social
group as if they were all the
same
- treating individuals belonging to that group as if
no other characteristics were important
- treating individuals belonging to that group as if
no other characteristics were important
- classifying members of a social
group as if they were all the
same
- eyewitness testimony
- the statement given by
a witness about an
event/crime
- the statement given by
a witness about an
event/crime
- Crime
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