WorksheetsForensic Psychology
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are 3 ways of measuring crime?
a)
Statistics, Victim Surveys and Offender Surveys
b)
Statistics, Experiments, and Surveys
c)
Statistics, Surveys and Police Reports
2.
What is the dark figure?
a)
Crimes that may not appear in the official statistics
b)
Crimes that are to serious to document
c)
Crimes that are not published by police
d)
Number associated with petty crimes
3.
Canter et al (2004) used a technique called smallest space analysis, to analyse data from 100 murders in the USA.
Did his findings support or go against the notion of organised or disorganised killers?
Did his findings support or go against the notion of organised or disorganised killers?
a)
Yes, his results supported the classification of organised and disorganised killers.
b)
No, although his results showed that organised killers did have certain characteristics, this was not found for disorganised killers.
4.
How does Lombroso explain criminal behaviour (atavistic explanation) ?
a)
Offenders have genetic component which makes them criminals
b)
Offenders are genetic sub-species ill-suited to conforming to the rules of society resulting in offender facial characteristics
c)
Criminals are biologically programmed to offend
d)
Offenders have characterstics which make them more likely to offend and their ubrining contributes to this pre-dispostion
5.
Charles Goring (1913) compared 3000 criminals with 3000 non-criminals, what were the findings and did it support or contradict Lombroso?
a)
No significant difference between facial characterstics, therefore evidence against.
b)
Found a significant difference between facial characteristics, therefore evidence in support.
c)
Found a few were different whilst some were not. Mixed evidence.
6.
What is the diathesis Stress model?
a)
A genetic characteristic is expressed through environmental triggers.
b)
A genetic facet is expressed only through a chemical trigger
c)
A characteristic is expressed when the individual is under stress.
d)
Stress lead to behaviours/charactersitics being expressed.
7.
What is a evaluation point of the use of Twin studies?
a)
Unrepresentative due to small sample size and uncommon
b)
Same biological make-up and environment
c)
They look alike
d)
Representative due to same biological make-up
8.
According to Eysneck what is the "criminal personality" ?
a)
Neurotic-extravert-psychoticism(high)
b)
Neurotic-extravert-psychoticism(low)
c)
Neurotic-intravert-psychoticism(high)
d)
Stable-intravert-psychoticism(low)
9.
Farrington et al (1982) reviewed several studies and found what?
a)
Offenders scored high on P but not on N or E
b)
Offenders scored high on N and E but not P
c)
Offenders scored low on N and E but not P
d)
Offenders scored high on all measures of P, N and E
10.
What did Bartol and Holanchock (1979) criticise Eysneck's theory of?
a)
Lacking cultural bias as it can't be generalised to hispanic or black cultures.
b)
Lacking population validity as it was based on a small sample
c)
Lacking reliability as it can not be tested
d)
Lacking ecological validity as it can not explain the varies types of criminals
11.
What are two cognitive distortions that can explain criminal behaviour?
a)
Hostile attribution bias and minimalisation
b)
Beck's cognitive triad and minimalisation
c)
Moral reasoning and minimalisation
d)
Hostile attribution bias and moral reasoning
12.
Edwin Sutherland believes criminal behaviour can be learned,what is learnt?
a)
Pro-crime attitudes and crime knowledge
b)
Pro-crime attitudes and criminal acts
c)
Pro-crime behaviours and pro-crime benefits
d)
Pro-crime behaviours and attitudes
13.
A criticism of Sutherland's differential association theory is ?
a)
Unfalsifiable ( difficult to test)
b)
It lack supportive evidence
c)
Successful in shifting the focus from ativistic theory
d)
Has explanatory power
14.
Which study supports Differential Association theory?
a)
Farrington et al (2006)
b)
Lewis (1954)
c)
Bartol (1995)
d)
Moffitt (1993)
15.
What is recidivism and which country has the lowest recidivism rates in Europe?
a)
Re-offending and Norway
b)
Re-offending and Sweden
c)
Not conforming and Switzerland
d)
Not conforming and Belgium
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