Psychology and the Law
The Legal System
Psychology of Crime
Psychology of Police
Psychology
100
Is the first choice, in the Basic Choices in the Psychological study of the law.
What is Rights of Individuals versus the Common Good?
100
This is the type of Criminal Justice system that we have in place hear in the united States.
What is an Adversarial System?
100
This theory suggests that genetic influences and neuropsychological abnormalities are to blame for criminal behavior.
What is Biological Theory?
100
Incorruptible, Well adjusted, People Oriented, Free of overly emotional reactions ect.
What are psychological caracteristics you want in a police officer?
100
Phyisical and psychological threats, Evaluation systems, and Organizational problems.
What are job related stresses?
200
Is the second choice, in the Basic Choices in the Psychological study of the law.
What is Equality versus Discretion?
200
According to the principles of ___________ Justice, a person will be more accepting of decisions and more likely to believe that disputes have been resolved appropriately if the outcomes seem just.
What is Distributive Justice?
200
This theory emphasizes that crime results from personality attributes that are uniquely possessed, or possessed to a special degree, by the potential criminal.
What is Psychological Theory?
200
The interview, Situational Tests, Psychological Tests, Fitness for duty evaluations, ect.
What are parts of the police officers selection process?
200
This is an approach, police officers develop a proactive, problem solving approach with active colaboration from the local community.
What is Community based policing?
300
Is the third choice, in the Basic Choices in the Psychological Study of the Law.
What is To discover the truth or to Resolve Conflict?
300
This model of justice suggests that if individuals view the procedures of dispute resolution or decision making as fair, then they will view the outcome as just.
What is Procedural Justice?
300
This theory bridges the gap between the environmentalism of sociology and the individualism of psychology or biological theories. It proposes that crime is learned, but they differ about what is learned and how it is learned.
What is Social-Psychological Theory?
300
C.I.T.
What is Crisis Intervention Team?
300
This is the type of legal system that is used in Europe.
What is the Inquisitorial Approach?
400
Is the fourth choice, in the Basic Choices in the Study of the Law.
What is Science versus the Law?
400
A form of dispute resolution in which a neutral third party makes a decision that is binding on the two parties.
What is Arbitration?
400
This theory claims that the thrill seeking and disruptive behavior of the psycopath serve to increase sensory input and arousal to a more tolerable level.
What is Stimulation-seeking theory?
400
An incident that you may encounter in the line of duty where an individual will try to get an officer to kill them.
What is Suicide by Cop?
400
This is when a court of appeals decides to review a case, the order granting the review is called.
What is Writ of Certiorari?
500
Is someone who possesses special knowledge about a subject, based on education or training, that will allow that person to testify as to their opinion on a subject.
What is an Expert Witness?
500
A form of alternative dispute resolution in which a neutral third party helps the disputing parties agree on a resolution to their conflict.
What is Mediation?
500
This theory states that the stigma of being branded a deviant can create a self-fullfilling prophecy.
What is Labeling Theory?
500
Enforcing the law, Maintain order, Providing services, ect.
What are the major duties of a police officer?
500
They are the three key actors of the court process.
Who are the Judge, Prosecutor, and defense attorney?