SAS
A2 Studies in Forensic Psychology
Key terms
Disrupted Families
Learning from others
Poverty &
Disadvantaged
neighbourhoods
Criminal Thinking
Patters
Moral Development
Farrington (2006)
Sutherland (1934)
Wikström & Tafel
(2000)
East London, risk factors
Differential Association
Peterborough Youth Study
Yochelson & Samenow
(1976)
Kohlberg (1963)
Social Cognition
Gudjohnsson &
Bownes (2002)
Raine (2002)
Brunner (1993)
Daly & Wilson (2001)
Restless, angry, lack
empathy
Pre-morality, Conventional,
Post-conventional
Attribution, Blame
Brain Dysfunction
Genes & Serotonin
Gender
Recognising Faces
Factors influencing
identificator
Cognitive Interview
Detecting Lies
Bruce (1999)
Loftus (1987)
Interrogation
Techniques
False Confessions
Top-down Typology
Inbau (1986)
Bottom-up
Approaches
Case Study
Canter & Heritage
(1990)
Canter (1994)
Effect of order of
testimony
Persuasion
Pennington & Hastie
(1988)
Cutler (1989)
Evidence being ruled
inadmissible
Attractiveness of the
defendant
Witness Confidence
Pickel (1995)
Shields and video
tapes on children
giving evidence
Stages in decision
making
Ross (1994)
Majority Influence
Asch (1955)
Minority Influence
Nemeth & Wachtler
(1974)
Gillis & Nafekh (2005)
Cognition
Interviewing
Suspects
Witness Appeal
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Reaching a Verdict
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Reaching a Verdict
Persuading a Jury
Creating a
Profile
Making a Case
Interview
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Witnesse
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Biology
Turning to Crime
Study / example
Subunit
Upbringing
Unit
Planner Behaviour
Fisher (1989)
Mann (2004)
Gudjohnsson (1990)
Canter (2004)
Castellow (1990)
Penrod & Cutler (1995)
Hastie (1983)
Pre-Frontal Lobes,
MAOA, serotonin
Risk taking & life
expectancy, absenteeism
Internal & external features
Weapon Focus
Eliciting information
Truthfulness, video clips,
accuracy
Confrontation, shift blame,
sincerity, alternative Q
Case study FC, 14 hrs, EPI
Multi-dimensional scaling,
organised element
Sexual assault, impersonal,
sudden
John Duffy, railway station,
London
Lab experiment, verdict,
confidence, story-order
Witness Identifying
Conditions, witness
confidence
Mock jurors, inadmissible,
reasons
Halo Effect
Mock-trial, weak
correlation
Open court, shield, video,
artificial interruption
Orientation period, Open
Confrontation,
Reconciliation
Stooge / confederate,
conformity
Consistency, autonomy,
long table
Employment programmes,
Notes? Revised?
SAS
Treatment
programmes
Alternatives to
Imprisonment
once freed from jail
Depression / suicide
risk in prisons
Prison situation and
roles
Probation
Dooley (1990)
Restorative Justice
Sherman & Strang
(2007)
Eberhardt (2006)
Looking
“Deathworthy”
Cognitive Skills
programme
Anger Mangement
Ear Acupuncture for
Drug Rehabilitation
Haney & Zimbardo
(1998)
Mair & May (1997)
Cann (2006)
Ireland (2000)
Wheatley (2007)
conditional release,
custody
Content analysis, remand,
overcrowding
Dispositional explanations,
supermax cells
Self-report, Likert, 88%
useful
Reductions in violent &
property crime
Race and Capital
punishment
Enhanced Thinking Skills
Instrumental & Hostile
Aggression, WBC, self
report
Qualitative, coping skills,
cravings