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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. Dealing with offending behaviour: o The aims of custodial sentencing and the psychological effects of custodial sentencing o Recidivism o Behaviour modification in custody o Anger management o Restorative justice programmes. 2 Offender profiling Offender profiling is based on the idea that the characteristics of an offender can be deduced from the characteristics of the offence and the particulars of the crime scene.
Forensic Psychology ... and analysis of the evidence (including witness reports) in order to generate hypotheses about the probable characteristics of the offender (their age, background, occupation, etc) There are two main types of offender profiling: Top …
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