CRIMINOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Over view of UNIT 3
1. What is Crime and 2. What Causes it?
Causes of Criminal Behaviour
 Social Learning Theory – Modelling?
 Jail for criminal family in £100m raids on stately
homes
Jailed: Ricky Johnson and his sons Albie and 'Chad'
Causes of Criminal Behaviour contd
MODELLING?
Causes of Criminal Behaviour contd
 The Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Gang of teenage hoodies kicked
former soldier to death for £5
they wanted to spend on booze
and drugs
Ways to Study Criminal Behaviour
 Can we use experiments to study criminal
behaviour?
 Natural Experiments/Lab Experiments/Field
Experiments?
Eye Witness Testimony
Treating Offenders
 Token economies
Treating Offenders continued
 Anger Management
EVIDENCE OF PRACTICE
1. Key Issue: one of the following
a) The reliability of EWT
b) The use of offender profiling
c) Is a criminal born or made?
EVIDENCE OF PRACTICE
continued
Summarise 2 magazine or
newspaper articles concerning
a topic covered within the
application
!The reliability of EWT!
Assessment Information
 The unit assessment consists of a 1 ½ hour examination.
 There will be 60 marks available for this paper and it will
be worth 40% of the A2 course
 You will answer questions on 2 applications i.e. criminal
and health. (ignore sport and child psychology)
 The exam will consist of short answer and extended
writing questions.
 You should be prepared to draw on information from the
AS approaches including methodology and ethics.
You already know that the A2 year requires you
to work hard and spend time on independent
study.
We are now ½ way through unit 3
The Crime unit will be completed by Christmas
KEEP GOING 