Exam 34: Criminal and Forensic Psychology

What is developmental criminology?

Within developmental psychology protective factors are:

Which techniques have psychological profilers such as David Cantor used to identify unknown offenders in 'stranger murders' ?

According to Moffit, part of the explanation for for life-course persistent offending lies in not only early family risk factors, but also, controversially;

What did Sampson and Laub find to be the key factors in understanding the link between adolescent delinquency and adult criminality?

What might make a witness 'vulnerable'?

Experienced detectives find the discovery of lying during an interrogation straightforward.

Within developmental psychology risk factors are:

How might expert witnesses affect the outcome of cases in court?

Offender profiling is a means to identify the individual offender of a particular crime.

What did the 'Innocence Project' in the US find was the biggest cause of wrongful convictions?

Cognitive interview techniques have eliminated the likelihood of false confessions during police interrogation.

How can the study of risk factors prevent crime?

Most homicide offenders have a mental disorder.

Which three separate tersm are used by Maguire to distinguish between approaches to the study of 'the criminal mind'?

What are the four obstacles Maguire says have tended to limit broader acceptance of psychological approaches to crime ?

What is the approach to assessing the veracity of evidence known as statement validity analysis (SVA) involve?

What is the basis for cognitive skills programmes?

What is 'cognitive empathy'?

Most people can recall aspects of incidents such as car accidents with clarity.