Offender profiling: |
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the top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender |
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| the bottom-up approach, including investigative Psychology; geographical profiling.
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Biological explanations of offending behaviour: |
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stress an historical approach (atavistic form); |
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genetics |
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and neural explanations. |
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Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: |
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Eysenckâs theory of the criminal personality; |
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cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; |
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psychodynamic explanations. |
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Dealing with offending behaviour: |
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the aims of custodial sentencing |
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the psychological effects of custodial sentencing. |
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Recidivism |
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Behaviour modification in custody. |
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Anger management |
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restorative justice programmes. |
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