Paper 3 - Complete Student Workbook - Forensic Psychology

Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )

Option 3 Forensic Psychology - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:

Week 21 - Defining and Measuring Crime
1. Problems in defining crime.
2. Ways of measuring crime, including official statistics, victim surveys and offender surveys.

Week 22 - Offender Profiling
1. Offender profiling
2. The top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender
3. The bottom-up approach, including investigative Psychology
4. Geographical profiling.

Week 23 - Biological Explanations of Offending Behaviour
1. An historical approach (atavistic form)
2. Genetics
3. Neural explanations.

Week 24 - Psychological explanations of offending behaviour
1. Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality
2. Cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation
3. Differential association theory
4. Psychodynamic explanations.

Week 25 - Dealing with offending behaviour
1. The aims of custodial sentencing
2. The psychological effects of custodial sentencing.
3. Recidivism.
4. Behaviour modification in custody.
5. Anger management and restorative justice programmes.

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