Forensic psychology

6. a way of creating an offender profile based on psychological theories in the uk
7. research - rates of re-offending
9. a way of creating an offender profile in the USA
10. a body type that is hard and muscular
11. research - anger management
13. involves the offender serving time in a prison
19. the theory that the way an offender behaves during criminal activity reflects the way the criminal usually behaves
22. research - criminal thinking
27. the type of profiling used in the uk which involves generalising from locations of multiple crime scenes to the likely home/work/social base of the offender
29. research - geographical profiling
30. research - maternal deprivation
31. research - moral reasoning

1. a body type that is soft and round
2. a person accepts responsibility for their behaviour and sees the cause as being within themselves
3. the area identified by geographical profiling which is thought to be the home/work/social base of the offender and which should be focused on in an investigation
4. an offender who has planned the crime
5. a person sees the cause of their behaviour as being external
7. behaviour that breaks the law
8. research - restorative justice
12. an offender who has not planned the crime
14. research - internal verses external attribution
15. research - behaviour modification
16. an attempt to describe the characteristics of an offender by analysing the behaviour of an offender at a crime scene or multiple crime scenes
17. historical theories that criminals can be identified by their primitive characteristics or body types
18. research - differential association
20. research - offender profiling
21. research - eysencks personality test
23. offenders who travel away from the area where they live to commit their crimes
24. research - neural explanations
25. offenders who like to commit crimes in their own neighbourhoods
26. a body type that is thin and delicate
28. research - genetic explanations