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Mind Map by lolly2lilly, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lolly2lilly
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Criminal terminology
- Crime
- Defined as an
act against the
law and implies
a punishment or
treatment to
avoid someone
re-offending.
- Stealing, murder
and fraud are
against the law and
carry a punishment.
- They are against
social norms and it
represents what a
particular culture
thinks is wrong.
- What is considered wrong
in one country may not be in
another e.g. hitting a child.
- What is considered wrong
in one country may not be in
another e.g. hitting a child.
- Defined as an
act against the
law and implies
a punishment or
treatment to
avoid someone
re-offending.
- Recidivism
- Involves someone repeating a
behaviour or crime for which
they have been punished or
treated.
- Returning to a
repeating a
behaviour.
- For example if someone convicted of
burglary and punished is freed after the
appropriate length of time and then steals
again this will increase recidivism
figures.
- Returning to a
repeating a
behaviour.
- Involves someone repeating a
behaviour or crime for which
they have been punished or
treated.
- Antisocial behaviour
- Behaviour that is not
necessarily against the
law but that the majority of
people do not like and do
not approve off.
- Can turn into or be crime.
- Can turn into or be crime.
- Often behaviour that
affects people
negatively.
- Often used for
aggressive
behaviour.
- Often used for
aggressive
behaviour.
- Behaviour that is not
necessarily against the
law but that the majority of
people do not like and do
not approve off.
- Stereotyping
- Fixed, often simplistic
generalisation about a particular
group or class of people.
- Often negative, unflattering
and may underlie prejudice
or discrimination.
- Often negative, unflattering
and may underlie prejudice
or discrimination.
- People are
essentially cognitive
misers and so form
stereotypes of
others so there is
greater predictability
of those around us.
- Fixed, often simplistic
generalisation about a particular
group or class of people.
- Eye witness testimony
- An account people give of
an incident they have
witnessed.
- In criminological
psychology an
eyewitness will
provide police with a
statement about a
crime they've
witnessed.
- An account people give of
an incident they have
witnessed.
- Modelling
- Way of learning by
imitating the behaviour of
others.
- Individuals will observe criminal
behaviour being demonstrated in
others around them or via media.
- Remembers the behaviour and
reproduces it if theres motivation to do
so.
- Way of learning by
imitating the behaviour of
others.
- Cognitive miser
- Refers to idea that only a
small amount of info is
actively perceived by
individuals when making
decisions.
- Many cognitive shortcuts are
used instead to attend relevant
information and arrive at a
decision.
- Refers to idea that only a
small amount of info is
actively perceived by
individuals when making
decisions.
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