PSYC 372 Lecture 10: psych and law exam 1 part 2
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Testify re sanity (at time of crime, to stand trial, to be executed) Testify stereotypes (price waterhouse v hopkins 1989) Statistic analysis on discrimination in employment, death penalty, death qualified jurors, non unanimous juries: explain sociological, psychological, and biological theories of crime causation, being sure to include the various subtypes under each group. Criminals want something they cannot obtain legally. Limits: it"s not clear that the lower class wants to be like the middle class/crimes committed by folks with every opportunity. Goals of the mid class are seen as unattainable and therefore repudiated thru destructive vandalism. Reaction formation, vigorously rejecting mid class values. Reject peers that strive for mid class goals. Emphasize discrepancy in norms for different groups. Trouble, toughness, smartness, excitement, fate and autonomy. Sheldon, body shape (indicates personality [doesnt matter--correlation doesn"t not equal causation]): endomorph (overweight), mesomorph (average: more likely to be criminal), ectomorph (underweight) Genetic (twin studies: monozygotic vs dizygotic; family studies)
