Police and Investigative Psychology
Anything pertaining to the law both criminal or civil.
What is forensics?
The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
What is Recidivism?
Criminal Offenses motivated by an offender's bias against a group to which the victim either belongs or is believed to belong.
What is a hate/bias crime?
The application of social science techniques in an effort to find group of people that will be favorably disposed towards one's case.
What is scientific jury selection?
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations.
What is personality psychology?
The emotional and stressful effects that policies and practices of the police department have on an individual officer.
What are organizational stressors?
Is designed to reduce the number of possible suspects within any given population by "sketching" or creating a vignette of the type of person who may have committed a certain category crime.
What is profiling?
A primary motivation which includes opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual and vindictive.
What is the 4 major types of a rapist's primary motivation?
Two or more parties approach the legal system seeking resolution of a dispute.
What is a civil case?
Has specific training in systems offender management, forensic report writing, and treatment aimed at recidivism.
What is a correctional psychologist?
Examples include the MMPI -2, PAI and CPI which measure intellectual capacity, emotional stability and behavioral characteristics.
What is a personality assessment?
An imprecise, social, clinical and legal label for a wide variety of law and norm violating behaviors committed by an individual who has not reached adulthood.
What is Juvenile Delinquency?
A remedy for the recovery of some measure of economic or psychological wholeness. An attempt to restore a victim's original position prior to loss or injury (financial, physical, psychological).
What is restitution?
Makes a judge a gate keeper who must evaluate evidence including the testimony of a mental health practicioner.
What is the Daubert Standard?
A program similar to MST which was developed in the 1970s for behaviorally disturbed adolescents whose parents were unable to control their acting out behaviors.
What is Functional Family Therapy?
One of the earliest IQ tests used in 1917 by psychologist Louis Terman tested the intelligence of applicants for police officer and firefighter positions.
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence test?
The most popular instrument for measuring criminal psychopathy.
What is the PCL (Psychopathy check list)?
The intensity of pedophilic interest or the degree to which the offender is focused on children as sexual objects.
What is fixation?
When a therapist notifies an individual to protect them when their clients has made serious threats against them.
What is duty to warn?
Less secure institutions such as transition homes, halfway houses, and drug and alcohol outpatient programs.
What is community based facilities/treatment?
The degree to which a test identified a person's current performance on the dimensions and tasks the test is supposed to measure.
What is concurrent validity?
The commission of a voluntary act versus commission of a crime with a guilty state of mind.
What is Actus Reus versus Mens rea?
Any assault (sexual/physical) or other crime that results in the personal injury/death of one or more family member.
What is Family/Intimate Partner Violence?
Apply and interpret the U.S. constitution and acts of congress, settle disputes between states or citizens, and deal with specialized crime like copyrights and patents.
What is the federal courts?
Researchers suggesting that biological, genetic and or neuropsychological factors make a significant contribution to aggression.
What is the biological/neurological perspective/basis of behavior?