A-Level psychology - [criminal] - Edexcel, characteristics of the defendant

This is an A-Level psychology lesson which focuses on criminal psychology. This lesson is particularly focused on factors affecting jury decision making, characteristics of the defendant. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are 14 slides on the power point.

Included:

• Starter, social psychology recap. realistic conflict theory.
• Title page - introducing the idea of the halo effect
• Recap of pre-trial, during the trial, and post trial jury decision making. Requires students to have learnt about this. Slide can be deleted if this has not been covered.
• ‘The big problem with how juries are picked’ - youtube clip, link on the pp slide.
• Student task - list of characteristics, students discuss how they may influence the verdict.
• A3 summary sheet for the four main characteristics: gender, race, accent and attractiveness. Information on the slides for race. Students then use the information packs attached to complete the other characteristics.
• Slide which contains the key studies from the textbook- students to check their summary sheet.
• Pre-trial publicity. Students may need access to the Alevel textbook to complete this task. - please email (amyfo7@live.co.uk) if you need this resource.
• Evaluation summarised.