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What is Forensic Psychology?

What is Forensic Psychology?. First: what do you remember about Psychology?. What is Psychology? Behaviourism Psychodynamic Approach Cognitive Psychology Biological Psychology. Four Main Roles. Expert Witness Criminal Profiler Prison Psychologist Researcher

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What is Forensic Psychology?

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  1. What is Forensic Psychology?

  2. First: what do you remember about Psychology? • What is Psychology? • Behaviourism • Psychodynamic Approach • Cognitive Psychology • Biological Psychology

  3. Four Main Roles • Expert Witness • Criminal Profiler • Prison Psychologist • Researcher • They are applied psychologists – working with the criminal justice system to help • decide whether the criminal was ‘unsound of mind’ or sane when committing the crime • Create profiles • Develop and deliver therapies to offenders

  4. A story…. • Here’s a chance to test your “novice” psychological profiling skills: • I’ll give you the crime, you tell me whodunnit. • Think in terms of demographics (age, sex, race) and personality and IQ • Dec 24, 1990 the perpetrator drugs Tammy Homolka, age 15, with Halcion and Halothane and rapes her. The perpetrator, with a willing partner, photographs and videotapes the sex acts with the victim. Tammy vomits as a reaction to the drugs and suffocates. • Mid-June 1991, Leslie Mahaffy (15) disappears after phoning a friend from a 7-11. She is raped and tortured over two days, the proceedings videotaped. She is discovered piece by piece June 29. • Nov. 1991 Terry Anderson (14) vanishes • April, 1992 Kristen French (16) abducted, raped and tortured over Easter Weekend. She is strangled, her nude body shorn of all hair and left in a ditch.

  5. Which one is the serial killer?

  6. Karla Homolka • With the aid of her husband, rapes and kills first her sister, then three other girls. • Attempts to blame her sexual predation on “battered wife syndrome” However: It is subsequently revealed that she is an equal partner in the murders. Most people believe that almost all violent offenders are male, when in fact women make up a sizable percentage (based on type of crime--15% overall, about 50% of intimates)

  7. Where do we get our perceptions of crime? • Our perceptions of criminals are dictated to us by variety of groups: • Government: • What is the motivation of government? • Drug offenses • Media • Crime hyperbole • Presentations of minorities • Murder She Wrote and CSI • Political correctness • Koss “rape is on a continuum with normal male behavior” • domestic violence statistics (Steinmetz) • Criminals as a product of environment

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