forensic psych names

• Offender profilingBOTTOM-UP

  • Rossmo - geographical profiling + Canter - Circle theory (the marauder, the commuter)
• Lombroso


  • Theory of CRIMINOLOGY, atavistic features
• GENETICS and NEURAL explanations - Lange


  • Investigated 13 identical (MZ) and 17 non identical (DZ)
• Tiihonen et al


  • MAOA gene and CDH13
• Raine


  • Studied 41 violent offenders and compared the activity in their prefrontal cortex to 41 non-criminals
• Psychological explanations of offending behaviour

  Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality
• Eysenck


  • Neuroticism, extraversion, psychoticism
• Cognitive Explanations - psychological explanations of offending behaviour

  Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development, Cognitive distortions (hostile attribution bias, minimalisation)
• Differential Association Theory- psychological explanations of offending behaviour

  Sutherland - Association and interaction
• Psychodynamic Explanations - psychological explanations of offending behaviour

  Bowlby + Freud
• Aims of Custodial Sentencing and The Psychological Effects of Custodial Sentencing

  Bartol - In the last 20 years, suicide rates among offenders have tended to be 15 times higher than those in the general population
• Dealing with Offending Behaviour: Behaviour Modification in Custody

  Hobbs & Holt - Introduced a token economy programme
• Dealing with Offending Behaviour: Anger Management


  Cognitive factors trigger the emotional arousal which generally proceeds aggressive acts
• Raymond Novaco


  • Cognitive factors trigger the emotional arousal which generally proceeds aggressive acts
• Law found that prisoners were trying to control their anger to a greater extent after the completion of the programmes
• Restorative Justice Programmes

  Braithwaite - 'Crime hurts, justice should heal'