Assessment Tools
What are two types of assessment tools?
PEACE, Reid
What is Nature in Forensic Psychology?
What is Nature refers to the biological, genetic, and physiological factors that influence criminal behavior, aggression, and legal responsibility
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)?
This Cluster B disorder is often associated with a history of recurrent aggression, deceitfulness, and a failure to conform to social norms, a key feature in criminal profiling.
what are criminal motivations?
the internal drives or reasons, ranging from basic needs to psychological disorders, that push someone to commit a crime
This is the general field of psychology that applies its principles and knowledge to the legal system and court matters.
What is Forensic Physchology?
A false confession is an admission of guilt to a crime that the person did not commit. These can occur voluntarily, often to protect someone else or to seek attention, or be coerced during a prolonged interrogation
What is Nurture in Forensic Psychology?
What is Nurture refers to the external environmental, social, and family factors that influence criminal behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
A forensic psychologist might observe unstable interpersonal relationships, impulsivity, and intense, inappropriate anger in an offender diagnosed with this Cluster B disorder.
Anger, revenge, passion, thrill-seeking, or fulfilling a psychological need for control or validation-what motivation is this?
Emotional/Psychological
In profiling, a crime scene that shows evidence of planning, control, and a victim who was targeted is classified as this type of offense.
What is an Organized Offense?
What is an assessment tool?
A scientifically validated instrument used by mental health professionals to evaluate psychological factors relevant to legal questions.
Is this Nature or Nurture: Maria is a single mother of 2 whose rent is past due. She resorts to stealing from her local grocery store to feed her kids.
What is Nurture
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
This Cluster A disorder involves pervasive distrust and suspicion of others, often leading to misinterpretation of motives as malevolent, which can sometimes escalate into paranoia-driven offenses.
Poverty and need for food. What is this motivation
Social Factors
What are factors in life can't change
What is static factors?
What is the PEACE method?
A non-confrontational, ethical framework for investigative interviewing as an alternative to accusatory interrogation techniques that often led to false confessions.
Is this Nature or Nurture: Jack sustained a traumatic head injury causing damage to his prefrontal cortex. His behavior changed from calm to erratic, impulsive and dangerous.
What is Nature.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?
A grand sense of self-importance and a need for excessive admiration, sometimes masking underlying fragility, defines this Cluster B disorder, which might be present in white-collar criminals.
Genetics or personality traits like lack of remorse (psychopathy)- what is this
Biological/Innate
A forensic psychologist uses a Risk Assessment to predict how likely a person is to commit a crime again, a concept known by this 'R' term.
What is Recidivism?
What is the Reid technique?
It is a pre-employment test used by employers to measure a job applicant's honesty, dependability, and ethical behavior.
Is this Nature or Nurture: Steve was born with the MAOA-L gene. His parents were abusive emotionally and sometimes physically to each other and to Steve. He started acting out at a young age, committing theft, and even Arson.
What is Both.
What is the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R)?
This eight-item measurement tool is used to assess the core traits of psychopathy, including glibness, shallow affect, and lack of empathy, often associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD).
needing money or drugs to support an addiction.- what is this a result of
Substance abuse
This is the official term for the process where a psychologist gathers information and uses tools to estimate a person's future potential for violence or crime.
What is Risk Assessment?