Forensic Psychology Revision Booklet

I’ve created a comprehensive set of notes for every topic in A Level Psychology. They completely cover the specification, condensing all the key theories, studies, applications and evaluations into one booklet. I used these notes only alongside practice questions & achieved an A* in 2017.



Why they work:

> Organised according to, and covering entirely, the AQA specification.

> All AO1 and AO3 ready to answer exam questions

> Presented in a concise and memorable way - easy to learn!



Includes:

• Problems in defining crime. Ways of measuring crime, including official statistics, victim surveys and offender surveys.

• Offender profiling: the top-down approach, including organised and disorganised types of offender; the bottom-up approach, including investigative Psychology; geographical profiling.

• Biological explanations of offending behaviour: an historical approach (atavistic form); genetics and neural explanations.

• Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck’s theory of the criminal personality;

cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution

bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.

• Dealing with offending behaviour: the aims of custodial sentencing and the psychological effects

of custodial sentencing. Recidivism. Behaviour modification in custody. Anger management and restorative justice programmes.



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