Forensic Psychology

1 Unit 3 Forensic Psychology Offender profiling: o The top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender o The bottom-up approach including investigative Psychology ; geographical profiling. Biological explanations of offending behaviour: o An historical approach (atavistic form) o Genetics and neural explanations. Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: o Eysenck s theory of the criminal personality o Cognitive explanations - level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation. o Differential association theory o Psychodynamic explanations.

surgical precision. There is little evidence or clues left behind at the scene. They tend to be of above-average intelligence, in a skilled, professional ... The Top-down approach could be seen as a more intuitive approach to offender profiling, it often relies on the expertise of the profiler which

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  Surgical, Intuitive

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