Explanations of Offending Behaviour
Across
- 3. A type of cognitive bias where individuals interpret situations as being more threatening than they really are.
- 7. One of the candidate genes implicated in genetic explanations of offending behaviour.
- 8. Theorist who came up with a way to measure personality traits.
- 9. The name of the researcher who examined anti-social and criminal behaviour in a family in the Netherlands.
- 10. Offending profiling approach based on criminal typologies, created in the US.
- 11. One of the personality dimensions linked to criminal behaviour.
- 14. A psychological explanation of offending suggesting individuals who commit crime are less morally developed than those who do not.
- 15. The theory that criminals are evolutionary throwbacks; less developed than non-criminals.
Down
- 1. One of the neurotransmitters implicated in offending behaviour according to neural explanations.
- 2. Rates that show the likelihood of both twins developing the same disorder or engaging the in the same behaviour.
- 4. A psychological explanation of offending stating errors in thought processes lead people to commit crime.
- 5. The theorist who came up with the term criminology and proposed that you can tell a criminal by their physical appearance.
- 6. Offender profiling approach based on the theory that criminals operate within a specific location, and examining the time and location of crimes can reveal information about the offender.
- 12. The questionnaire used to measure personality dimensions.
- 13. Lobe of the brain implicated in offending behaviour according to Raine.