Criminal Psychology Key Terms
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Criminal Psychology Key Terms
Defining criminal behaviour
Violent offences: Aggressive crimes resulting in physical harm or death to the victim
Drug related offences: Crimes involving trading in or using illegal substances
Acquisitive offences: Crimes where capital or belongings are acquired through illegal means e.g. theft
Sexual offences: Crimes where a victim is forced to commit or submit to a sexual act against their will
Anti-social offences: Criminal acts that cause harassment, alarm or distress to people who do not share a home with the perpetrator
Subjectivity: Based on personal opinion rather than fact
Social construct: A concept that exists as the result of interactions between people who make up a society
Deviation from norms: when an act or behaviour goes against the accepted standards of a society
Culture: a collective set of norms and values that determine the way of life of a group of people
Anti-social behaviour: behaviour by a person which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as the person
Self-report: a method that involves participants reporting on themselves through answering questions
Social learning theory
Social learning theory: a theory that explains behaviour in terms of observation and imitation
Role model: a person held in esteem by another
Identification: the process where a person aligns themselves with another.
Observation: the process where people pay attention to behaviours and retain them in memory
Imitation: a process where people recall behaviours and reproduce them in their own actions
Vicarious reinforcement: when a behaviour is strengthened by an individual observing this same behaviour being rewarded in another
Direct reinforcement: when a behaviour is strengthened and likely to be repeated due to positive outcomes for the individual
Internalisation: the process whereby a behaviour becomes an integral part of…
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