Criminal Psychology Edexcel GCSE with Questions and Answers

Criminal Psychology Edexcel GCSE with Questions and Answers What is psychoticism? ANSWER Lacking empathy, antisocial and aggressive personality. What was EPQ? ANSWER Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. PEN personality according to the personality theory. ANSWER High psychoticism High extroversion High unstable neuroticism What is socialisation? ANSWER Being punished for anti-social behaviour. In people with PEN, they don't associate anti-social behaviour with the anxiety of being punished. Strengths to Personality Theory ANSWER -Empirical Evidence: Farrington et al (1982) reviewed lots of studies that compared offenders with non-offenders. He found that there was a relationship between High P & N scores & criminality. (but not E) -Holistic: combines biological, psychological & social factors into one theory. It integrates all levels of explanation. Weaknesses to Personality Theory ANSWER -Social conditions, like poverty, are more likely to cause criminal behaviour than the type of nervous system we possess. -self-reported data and therefore biased. -Only offenders who have been caught and not successful ones therefore unreliable. What is recidivism? ANSWER the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend