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Flashcards by Choon Fuller, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Choon Fuller
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Farrington and Dowds | investigated apparent differences in crime figures between countries in the UK and found that Nottinghamshire record thefts under £10 |
| Canter (Against FBI) | test the validity of the organised/disorganised distinction and found that disorganised characteristics were rare and did not occur together often enough to be considered a type |
| Canter (For geographical profiling) | Case of John Duffy the railway rapist who was caught using a geographical profile |
| Pinizzotto and Finkel | evaluation of the effectiveness of offender profiling training and found that trained experts produced better, more accurate profiles of sex offenders but not significantly better than the other groups with the murder case |
| Sheldon | investigated the link between body shape and criminality and found the average rating for a delinquent photo was 4.6 compared to 3.8 of the control photos when rated out of 7 |
| Mednick et al | heritability of criminal behaviour in an adoption study and found that 20% whose biological parents had convictions had convictions compared to 13.5% when the biological parents were not criminal |
| Raine | compared the brain volume in people with ADP and controls using MRIs and found that there was a reduced volume of grey matter in the prefrontal ares of the APD group and reduced autonomic responses during stressful situations |
| Farrington et al | cambridge study of delinquent development in working class boys and their families and found that 41% of the sample had convictions between 10 and 50. At 17 50% of the convictions were due to 5% of the sample. |
| McGurk and Mcdougall | investigated the link between criminality and personality type and found that there were significant differences in the scores on all 3 dimensions on the EPQ. The delinquent group had a combination of high P E and N scores |
| Zimbardo | investigated the psychological effects of imprisonment and found that prisoners assumed their roles and became passive, submissive and miserable and the guards asserted their power subjecting the prisoners to penalties for bad behaviour |
| Sherman and strang | review evidence of the effect of restorative justice and found that repeat offending was substantially reduced for some offenders and recidivism rates were reduced for both adult and young offenders. For victims post traumatic stress symptoms were reduced |
| Cassidy | effectiveness of tagging in juvenile and found that tagging was reserved for the most persistent offenders. 88% of young males were black. Tagging resulted in a 7% decrease in number of offenders breaching bail |
| Cullen and Seddon | investigated token economy in young offenders and found that those on the programme began to display more positive behaviours over the duration of the study |
| Ireland | usefulness of a group based anger management programme with young male offenders and fuond that 92% had improved on at least one measure and 48% improved on both |
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