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Psychology - forensics

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official statistics
What are they based on,
Who are they published by,
What do they develop
6  cards
Evalaution Of Differential Association
Explanatory power,
Shift of focus,
Difficulty in testing
5  cards
Differential Association Theory
What do individuals learn,
What did sutherland develop scien...,
Crime as a learned behaviour
7  cards
Evaluation Of Custodial Sentencing
What did bartol suggest psycholog...,
What did the prison reform trust ...,
Individual differences
5  cards
Custodial sentencing
Deterrence 1,
Incapacitation 2,
Retribution 3
6  cards
Behaviour modification
What is their aims,
How are the aims made possible,
What is token economy
9  cards
Anger management
1 cognitive preparation,
2 skills acquisition,
3 application practice
9  cards
Restorative justice
What do historically offenders co...,
What is the restorative justice p...,
Supervised meeting
11  cards
Evaluation of measuring crime
How are official statistics unrel...,
What percent of crimes are includ...,
What percent makes up the dark fi...
11  cards
Top Down Approach
What is their aim,
What do the methods usually involve,
What is the hypotheses about the ...
11  cards
Evaluation of top down approach
How is it a limited approach part...,
What is the approach based on the...,
What have several critics alison ...
8  cards
The bottom up approach
What is the aim of the approach,
What is the profile,
What is investigatives psychology...
13  cards
Evaluation of bottom up approach
What did canter heritage conduct,
What is a smallest space analysis,
Evidence supporting geographical ...
5  cards
Biological explanations of offending behaviour
Who was it proposed by,
What did lambroso suggest,
What could criminals be identifie...
5  cards
Biological explanations evaluation
Contribution to criminology,
What has delisi drawn attention to,
What did goring set out to establish
8  cards
Genetic/Neural explanations of offending behaviour
What does it suggest,
What did lange investigate,
What did lange find
12  cards
Genetic & Neural explanations evaluation
What did keyers find,
Problems with twin studies,
Support for diathesis stress model
5  cards
Eysenck's theory of criminal personality
What did eysenck propose,
What did eysenck believe about pe...,
What are all p types
8  cards
Evaluation of Eysenck's theory
What did eysenck compare,
What were groups subdivided into,
What did prisoners record
8  cards
Cognitive explanations of offending behaviour
What did kohlberg propose,
What did kohlberg find using his ...,
What are criminal non criminals l...
12  cards
Cognitive explanations of offending evaluation
What did palmer and hollin compare,
What did palmer and hollin find,
What did gibbs propose
6  cards
Psychodynamic explanations of offending behaviour
What did blackburn argue about th...,
The weak superego,
The deviant superego
8  cards
Psychodynamic explanations of offending evaluation
What did freuds theory suggest ge...,
What did hoffman find,
What is there little evidence for
6  cards
victim surveys
When are they taken,
What do they do,
How many houses
6  cards
offender surveys
What are they interviewed on,
What do they use,
What do they provide insight into
4  cards

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