Deck 1: Psychological Approaches to Understanding Crime

Question 1

At which stage of Gibbs' (2003) theory of "sociomoral reasoning" can an individual be described as having reached mature moral reasoning?

Answer 1

Stage 3

Question 2

According to Gibbs (2003, 2010, 2014), what is the main offence-supporting distortion?

A) Hostile attributional bias
B) Egocentric bias
C) Minimising the consequences of antisocial behaviour
D) Blaming others for one's own antisocial behaviour

Answer 2

Egocentric bias

Question 3

In Crick and Dodge's (1994) six-stage model of social information-processing, individuals can simultaneously perform all six different steps, thus allowing for feedback between processes.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Cognitive shortcuts help to process information quickly at stage ______ of Crick and Dodge's (1994) model of social information-processing

Question 5

Which areas of the brain have been shown by research to have an association with violent behaviour?

Question 6

According to Malamuth, Heavey, and Linz's (1993) interaction model, sexual aggression is the result of an interaction between the _____ path and the ______path.

Question 7

Who developed the Integrated Theory of Sexual Offending?

A) Malamuth et al. (1993)
B) Finkelhor (1984)
C) Ward and Beech (2006)
D) Hall and Hirschmann (1992)

Question 8

Neurological disorders show a strong association with arson.

Question 9

Which of these is one of the proposed explanations for the relationship between schizophrenia and offending?

A) Schizophrenia causes offending
B) Schizophrenia is a consequence of offending
C) Schizophrenia and offending are merely correlated, so there is no causal relationship between the two
D) All of the above

Question 10

Which DSM-IV category of personality disorder is the most associated with offending behaviour?

A) Cluster A (odd-eccentric)
B) Cluster B (dramatic-emotional-erratic)
C) Cluster C (anxious-fearful)

Question 11

"Psychopathic disorder" is a clinical diagnosis.

Question 12

In terms of characteristics that appear to define most psychopaths, highlight the odd one out from the list below:

A) A lack of guilt/remorse
B) Impulsiveness
C) Irresponsibility
D) Pathological lying
E) Autism