Need the meaning of a particular word or phrase, yet can't seem to find it anywhere? Well, we have your very own glossary right here! Of course, a glossary is much to long to post all at once, so here is your As, Bs and Cs of Psychology for Crime words. You can download the entire glossary file from here.
A
Adversarial System - A trail procedure in which prosecution and defence teams compete to establish the truth of their version of events.
Age Regression - A hypnotic technique in which the witness is 'taken back' to the age at which they witnessed a crime in order to 'relive it'.
Amygdala - A brain structure, part of the limbic system, which is involved in empathic responses to others. The functioning of the amygdala is thought to be impaired in psychopaths.
Anger Management - An attempt to reduce aggressive behaviour by helping violent offenders to deal with inappropriate feelings of anger.
Attributions - The reasons assigned by an individual to explain why something has occurred. Attributions may have little to do with the real reason why something happened.
Attribution Theory - A branch of psychology that aims to explain how people arrive at attributions.
B
Behavioural Evidence - Evidence from the disposition of clues at the crime scene that indicates how the crime was committed.
British Crime Survey (BCS) - A victimisation survey carried out periodically by the Home Office in an attempt to discover the true incidence of crim ein the UK
C
Cognitive-behavioural Therapy - A form of psychological therapy that aims to alter maladaptive thinking strategies through behavioural techniques
Cognitive Interview - An interview procedure based on the principles of cue-dependent forgetting. It is claimed to enhance recall and produce fewer erros than the standard interview procedure
Commuter - An offender who travels some distance to offend
Conspecifics - Members of the same species
Copycat Crime - A crime which is purportedly carried out in the style of another crime, real or fictional
Crime Rate - The incidence of crime for a given geographical area, usually expressed as the number of crimes per head of population per year
Crime Scene Analysis - The offender profiling approach developed in the Us by the FBI. Offenders are assigned to categories based on their behaviour at a crime scene
Criminal Consistency Hypothesis - The view that the behaviour of an offender during the committing of a crime will reflect their behaviour in everyday life
Criminological Psychology - The application of psychological research to criminal behaviour
Criminology - The study of criminal behaviour. It encompasses a variety of disciplines including psychology, sociology and law
Helpful book: 'Psychology and Crime' - David Putwain and Aidan Sammons
ISBN: 0-415-25300-4
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