Forensic Psychology - Making a Criminal: Nature? by MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1 en-us 2016-05-26 20:28:21 UTC 2024-06-10 06:51:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Biological Theories of Crime MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151421529 6 minutes]]> 2017-02-03 13:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151421529 Atavistic Form ppt MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151781912 2017-02-06 12:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151781912 Atavistic Form Faces MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151782169 2017-02-06 12:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/151782169 Lombroso MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396505 In the 1870s Dr Cesare Lombroso, sometimes called the father of scientific criminology, was studying criminals imprisoned in Turin. He became convinced that criminals are a step back down the evolutionary ladder, a reversion to a primitive or subhuman type of man, with ‘atavistic’ features. He decided, after years of study, that you could tell a criminal by the shape of their face and the excessive length of their ape-like arms. "A criminal's ears are often of a large size. The nose is frequently upturned or of a flattened character in thieves. In murderers it is often aquiline like the beak of a bird of prey." He believed that criminal types shared facial features, such as large canine teeth, long, sloping foreheads, large ears, chin abnormalities. His work on criminality influenced developments throughout Europe and the US, but has largely been discredited since. ]]> 2017-02-08 09:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396505 Criminal DNA? MAOA MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396619 Fifteen years of painstaking research revealed that a family in the Netherlands where all the men had a history of violence all lacked the same gene. This gene produces an enzyme called MAOA, which regulates the levels of neurotransmitters involved in impulse control. It turns out that if you lack the MAOA gene or have the low-activity variant you are predisposed to violence. This variant became known as the warrior gene. About 30% of men have this so-called warrior gene, but whether the gene is triggered or not depends crucially on what happens to you in childhood. The explanation is that some people are protected from a potentially violent legacy by a happy childhood. "If you've the high-risk form of the gene and you were abused early on in life, your chances of a life of crime are much higher. If you have the high-risk gene but you weren't abused, then there really wasn't much risk. So just a gene by itself, the variant doesn't really dramatically affect behaviour, but under certain environmental conditions there is a big difference".]]> 2017-02-08 09:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396619 Source 3: Brain Damage MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396753 On the first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation deck, lugging with him a footlocker full of guns and ammunition. At the top, he killed a receptionist with the butt of his rifle. Two families of tourists came up the stairwell; he shot at them at point-blank range. Then he began to fire indiscriminately from the deck at people below. By the time the police shot him dead, Whitman had killed 13 people and wounded 32 more. The story of his rampage dominated national headlines the next day. And when police went to investigate his home for clues, the story became even stranger: in the early hours of the morning on the day of the shooting, he had murdered his mother and stabbed his wife to death in her sleep. Whitman’s body was taken to the morgue, his skull was put under the bone saw, and the medical examiner lifted the brain from its vault. He discovered that Whitman’s brain harboured a tumour the diameter of a nickel. This tumour, called a glioblastoma, had blossomed from beneath a structure called the thalamus, impinged on the hypothalamus, and compressed a third region called the amygdala. The amygdala is involved in emotional regulation, especially of fear and aggression.In humans, activity in the amygdala increases when people are shown threatening faces, are put into frightening situations, or experience social phobias.]]> 2017-02-08 09:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152396753 Source 6: Jim Fallon MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152409248 2017-02-08 10:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152409248 Genetic Theory MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152462420 Has something about everything!]]> 2017-02-08 14:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152462420 The XYY Hypothesis MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152714820 One physiological theory suggested that some crime might be attributable to a chromosomal abnormality. Sex is determined by the pattern of a person’s sex chromosomes: XX in a woman, XY in a man. It is a Y chromosome that makes a person male. It is well known that atypical chromosomal combinations can result in atypical sexual development. Since men are more aggressive than women, it might be that men who have XYY chromosomes might be more aggressive than other men and hence more likely to commit violent crimes. The idea was advanced that offender populations in prisons and hospitals would be likely to contain large numbers of XYY men. Some claims were made that high profile, prolific offenders, such as the American serial killer Arthur Shawcross, had the XYY pattern. It was eventually established that XYY men are rare in the general population but more common in the offender population (Howitt, 2009).

Whilst this is as expected, the problem is that XYY men tend to commit non violent crime, not violent crime as the XYY hypothesis predicts (Epps, 1995). Why might this be? Testosterone levels amongst XYY men are no different from XY men, and they are no more aggressive than the general population. However, they are at a substantially increased risk of developmental delay and learning difficulties (Graham et al, 2007). There is a small association between learning difficulties and criminal behaviour. IQ scores amongst convicted offenders are marginally lower than the general population (Hollin, 1992) and there is a slightly higher prevalence of mild learning difficulties amongst offender groups (Lund, 1990). It might therefore be the case that the higher than expected number of XYY men in the offender population is a consequence of the learning difficulties associated with the condition.

]]> 2017-02-09 09:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152714820 PMS makes you criminal? MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152715967 2017-02-09 09:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152715967 Source 4: Neural Explanation AO1 and AO3 MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152752036 Neurotransmitters and Neural structure]]> 2017-02-09 12:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/152752036 Source 5: American Psychological Association article MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/154264822 The amygadala]]> 2017-02-16 11:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/154264822 Crime Genes MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/155112846 MAOA gene]]> 2017-02-21 11:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/155112846 Essay PPT MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/155114769 2017-02-21 12:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/155114769 AO1 Flipped Learning Note Doc MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174696687 2017-05-31 19:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174696687 Class video MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174701477 2017-05-31 20:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174701477 Using neural explanation in criminal defence MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174767301 2017-06-01 08:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174767301 Source 2: Research article MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174773348 Read highlighted text - focus on discussion of frontal lobes]]> 2017-06-01 09:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174773348 Source 7: Serotonin and Dopamine MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174775853 2017-06-01 09:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174775853 Source 1: EBook MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174777025 Brain structure (PFC and limbic system)]]> 2017-06-01 09:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/174777025 MAOA genes and violent offending MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/208818177 2017-11-20 17:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/208818177 Short video on genetic explanation XYY chromosome MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/208830829 2017-11-20 18:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/208830829 Student Workbook MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/209018809 2017-11-21 10:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/209018809 Great article explaining atavistic form MrsCork https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/233040575 2018-02-19 19:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/MrsCork/makingacrim1/wish/233040575