Category Archives: OCR A2 Psychology

Pennington and Hastie (1988) – Explanation-based decision making: effects on memory structure on judgement

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Pennington, N. and Hastie, R., (1988) – ‘Explanation-based decision making: effects on memory structure on judgement’, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning and Memory and Cognition 14 (3), 521-33.

Background

This is the first study we will be looking at from Reaching Verdict and  Persuading a Jury, as part of your OCR A2 Forensic Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘order-effects/story order/witness order.’

Reaching a verdict and Persuading a Jury consider the legal system. This study specifically covers court hearings.

In the United Kingdom the final verdict in criminal trials is made by a jury of 12 citizens randomly selected from the voting register,  which upon turning 18 all UK citizens are added to. Prisoners and people diagnosed with mental illnesses are not allowed to serve on juries.

 

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Canter – John Duffy Case Study ‘The Railway Rapist’

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Canter – John Duffy Case Study ‘The Railway Rapist’

Background

This is the fourth study we will be looking at from Making a Profile, as part of your OCR A2 Forensic Psychology course. It is further categorised into both ‘case study.’

 

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Canter and Heritage., (1990) – ‘A multivariate model of sexual offence behaviour: developments in offender profiling’

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Canter and Heritage., (1990) – ‘A multivariate model of sexual offence behaviour: developments in offender profiling’, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 1, 185-212

Background

This is the third study we will be looking at from Making a Profile, as part of your OCR A2 Forensic Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘bottom-up.’

 

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Gillis & Nafekh (2005) – The Impact of community-based employment on offender reintegration

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Gillis & Nafekh (2005) – ‘The Impact of  community-based employment on offender reintegration’, Forum on Corrections Research. Vol. 17. No. 1. CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA, 2005.

Background

This is the first study that we will be looking at for the After a guilty verdict section of A2 Forensic Psychology, which is the 4th and final section. Gillis & Nafekh (2005) is further categorised into the sub-section ‘Imprisonment.’

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Canter et al., (2004) – ‘The organised/disorganised typology of serial murder myth or model?’

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Canter et al., (2004) – ‘The organised/disorganised typology of serial murder myth or model?’, Psychology, Public Policy,and Law, 10 (3). pp. 293-320. ISSN 1076-8971

Background

This is the second study we will be looking at from Making a Profile, as part of your OCR A2 Forensic Psychology course.

The background this study is the same as Hazelwood and Douglas (1980). It is highly recommended that you look that these two studies in series, first studying Hazelwood and Douglas (1980) because this study is an evaluation of  Hazelwood and Douglas (1980)

The background study for this theory, is Holmes and Holmes (1989).

Firstly, what is profiling? Offender or criminal profiling is simply the attempt to predict and create the likely traits and behaviours of an offender of a crime. The likelihood is that you already could begin to have a guess at the type of person that committed a crime. For example three women are found strangled and sexually assaulted at three different, but closely located train stations. It is more than likely that a male committed these offences. Criminal profiling done by professionals is in essence what we just did, but it goes into more depth.

Holmes and Holmes (1989) identified 3 aims of profiling:

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