Intro -- Psychology and Crime -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- What Is Criminological Psychology? -- Applying psychological principles to crime -- Different types of criminological psychology -- Forensic psychology -- Offender profiling -- 2 The nature and measurement of offending -- What Is A Criminal -- The legalistic approach -- The deviance approach -- Variables associated with criminality -- Socio-economic status -- Age -- Gender -- Measuring Crime -- Official crime statistic -- Victimisation surveys -- Offender surveys -- Victimisation -- Burglary -- Vehicle theft -- Violent crime -- The effects of victimisation -- Belief in a just world -- Locus of control -- Fear of crime -- Chapter summary -- 3 Biologically oriented explanations of criminal behaviour -- Constitutional Theories Of Criminality -- Lombroso's theory of criminal types -- Evaluation of Lombroso's theory -- Sheldon's theory of somatotypes -- Evaluation of Sheldon's theory -- Recent Genetic Research Into Criminality -- Family studies -- Twin studies -- Adoption studies -- Evaluation of genetic research -- Biological Research Into Criminality -- Structural brain abnormalities -- Eysenck's Personality Theory -- Evaluation of Eysenck's theory -- Chapter summary -- 4 Psychologically oriented explanations of criminal behaivaour -- Psychoanalytical Theories Of Crime -- Psychoanalytical conceptions of crime -- Evaluation of psychoanalytical research into crime -- Bowlby: maternal deprivation and delinquency -- Evaluation of Bowlby's theory -- Learning Theories Of Crime -- Differential association theory -- Evaluation of differential association theory -- Social learning theory -- Evaluation of social learning theory -- The media-aggression hypothesis -- Laboratory research -- Correlation studies.

Evaluation of the media aggression hypothesis -- Cognitive Theories Of Crime -- Yochelson and Samenow's 'criminal personality' -- Evaluation of Yochelson and Samenow's theory -- Moral development and crime -- Evaluation of Kohlberg's theory -- Rational choice theory -- Evaluation of rational choice theory -- Social Theories of Crime -- Labelling theory -- Evaluation of labelling theory -- Self-fulfilling prophecy -- Chapter summary -- 5 The police and crime -- Policing -- The police personality -- Determining and processing suspects -- Factors influencing arrest -- Disposal following arrest -- Interviewing -- Interview techniques -- Interrogation -- False confessions -- Negotiation -- Chapter summary -- 6 Offender profiling -- Principles Of Offender Profiling -- The FBI approach: crime scene analysis -- Evaluation of crime scene analysis -- Offender profiling in the UK: investigative psychology -- Evaluation of investigative psychology -- Biases and pitfalls in offender profiling -- Chapter summary -- 7 The psychology of testimony -- Cognitive Processes And Testimony -- Active and selective perception -- Reconstructive memory -- Forgetting -- Trace-dependent forgetting -- Cue-dependent forgetting -- Motivated forgetting -- Social cognition -- Attribution Theory And Bias In Eyewitness Testimony -- Fundamental attribution bias -- The actor-observer effect -- Self-serving attribution bias -- Attribution bias and witness testimony -- Identification Of Suspects And Events -- Acquisition -- Time factors -- Violence distraction -- Weapon focus -- Retention -- Retrieval -- Psychological research and the legal system -- AIDS To Widness Recall And Recognition -- Identity parades -- Identikit and photofit -- The cognitive interview -- Forensic hypnosis -- Evaluation of forensic hypnosis -- Chapter summary -- 8 The psychology of the courtroom -- Trial Procedures.

Persuasion techniques -- Rhetorical strategies -- The Yale Model of persuasion -- Story-telling in court -- Jury Process -- Jury selection -- The number of jurors -- Who should make up the jury? -- Jury decision making -- Courtroom evidence -- Group processes in jury decision making -- Pre-trial publicity -- Witness confidence -- Defendant characteristics -- Attractiveness -- Gender -- Race -- Child Witnesses -- Childhood memory -- Problems with children's testimony -- Sexual abuse -- Chapter summary -- 9 Punishing, treating and preventing crime -- Imprisionment -- Does prison work? -- Psychological effects of imprisonment -- Non-Custodial Sentencing -- Fines -- Probation -- Reparation and restitution -- Psychological Treatment Programmes -- Token economies -- Social skills training -- Anger management -- Crime Prevention -- CCTV surveillance -- Defensible space -- Zero tolerance -- Chapter summary -- 10 Study aids -- Improving your Essay Writing Skills -- Question One: OCR specimen question 2000 -- Question Two: Edexcel specimen question 2000 -- Question Three: AQA-B specimen question 2000 -- Key Research Summaries -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

What does a Criminological Psychologist do? The popular image is that of a latter-day Sherlock Holmes helping the police to solve crimes and mysteries, but the reality is much more complex. Psychology and Crime is a new introduction to the topic of Criminological Psychology that helps dispel these popular myths by providing a comprehensive overview of the topic of Criminological Psychology. The book includes both classic and contemporary psychological theory and research on a range of criminological issues including the nature, measurement and causes of crime, police work and offender profiling, eye-witness memory, trial procedures, jury decision making and the treatment of crime. Putwain and Sammons have produced an introductory text which covers the material on this topic in the A2 components of the AQA-B, OCR and Edexcel A-Level specifications. Psychology and Crime is also ideal for undergraduate students looking for an introduction to criminological psychology and for students studying psychology and media. It will also be useful for those who work in fields related to criminology such as the police and probation services, social workers and therapists.

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