PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Learning Theory, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, Forensic Psychology
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Current context this text focus on a psychological understanding of criminal behaviour with a consideration of individual and intra-individual influences. Psychology is interested in: intra-individual differences: variations in criminal conduct within an individual across time and situations inter-individual differences: variation in criminal conduct between individuals. Psychology focuses on individuals, whereas sociology focuses more on groups. The terms used to define the study of criminal behaviour vary somewhat across different texts. Forensic psychology: any application of psychology to the legal system (pozzulo, bennell, and forth 2008) but some serve the term for the practice of clinical psychology within the legal system. Reflects issues of risk assessment and expert testimony that intended to guide legal decision making than the understanding of criminal behaviour. The personal, interpersonal and community-reinforcement model (pic-r; andrews and bonta 2006) posits that criminal behaviour reflects the immediate situation in that factors (e. g. temptation, facilitators, inhibitors, and stressors) combine to influence a decision to engage in criminal behaviour.
