A. Preparing a story on the spot
B. Being original
C. Good acting ability
D. Not experiencing emotion
Criminal Psychology
All of the following refer to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for_______.
A. Leadings
B. Change perspective
C. Report everything
D. Context reinstatement
Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?
A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’
B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge
C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence
D. Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources
Which of the following are includes in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?
A. Overly harsh or lax parenting style
B. Criminality in the family
C. Low intelligence
D. All of the above
Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:
A. Antisocial behavior
B. History of mental illness
C. Family criminality
D. A and C
The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:
A. Distal factors
B. Conduct disorder
C. Poor parenting
D. (b) and (c)
Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?
A. Anger management
B. Encoding social cues
C. Deception
D. Memory retrieval
The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include:
A. Cognitive interviews
B. Offender profiling
C. Being community- based
D. Focus on relationship with parents
Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?
A. Aggression replacement training
B. What Works program
C. Statement validity assessment
D. The Cambridge study
As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?
A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity