FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

Problems in defining crime
Measuring Crime
1. Official Statistics
  1. Farrington and Dowds (1985)
2. Victim Surveys
3. Self-report measures
4. Evaluation
Offender Profiling
1. The Typology Approach
  1. Canter et al. (2004)
  2. Evaluation
2. The Geographical Approach
  1. Evaluation
  2. Canter (1986)
  3. Lundrigan and Canter (2001)
3. Evaluation
Theories of Offending
1. Early biological approaches
  1. Lombroso's atavistic form
  2. Sheldon's somatotype theory
    1. Sheldon (1949)
  3. Evaluation
2. Biological explanations
  1. Genetics
    1. Grove et al. (1990)
    2. Mednick et al. (1984)
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Neurophysiology
    1. Raine et al. (2000)
  4. Evaluation
3. Eyesenck's theory of the criminal personality
  1. McGurk and McDougall (1981)
  2. Evaluation
4. Psychodynamic explanations
  1. Superego
  2. Maternal deprivation
  3. Defence Mechanisms
  4. Evaluation
5. Social Learning Theory explanations
  1. Farrington (2006)
  2. Evaluation
The role and effectiveness of custodial sentencing
1. Evaluation
2. Zimbardo et al. (1973)
Alternatives to custodial sentencing
1. Electronic tagging
  1. Cassidy et al.
  2. Evaluation
2. Restorative justice
  1. Evaluation
  2. Sherman and Strang (2007)
Treatment Programmes
1. Behaviour Modification
  1. Cullen and Seddon (1981)
  2. Evaluation
2. Treatment Programmes
  1. Ireland (2000)
  2. Evaluation

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