Section B Crime Questions

Section B Crime Questions Answers are worth 10, 16 and 8 marks for a, b and c respectively. Describe explanations for criminal behaviour. Discuss explanations for criminal behaviour. Based on your knowledge of explanations for criminal behaviour, suggest how the police could reduce the number of burglaries occurring in a wealthy neighbourhood. Give reasons for your answer. Describe methods of Offender Profiling. Discuss methods of Offender Profiling. The police are investigating a series of similar burglaries in your local community. Suggest how offender profiling could be used to assist this investigation. Give reasons for your answer. Describe treatment programmes and punishments for offenders. Discuss treatment programmes and punishments for offenders. You have been approached by the probation service to develop a treatment programme to reduce youth crime. What suggestions will you make? Give reasons for your answer. Outline evidence for the existence of a police personality. Evaluate evidence for the existence of a police personality. You have been asked to develop a selecetion procedure that ensures that applicants are suitable for the job of being a police officer. What kind of strategies will you use? Give reasons for your answer. Consider psychological studies of offender profiling. Evaluate psychological studies of offender profiling. Suggest what the aims of offender profiling should be. Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about the psychology of the courtroom. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about the psychology of the courtroom. You are a criminal psychologist. What recommendations would you suggest to make it easier for children to give evidence? Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about explanations of crime. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about explanations of crime. You are a lawyer defending a person charged with burglary. This person has a long history of convictions for similar offences. Using your knowledge of psychology, outline possible explanations for this history of offending. Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about victims of crime (10) Evaluate what psychologists have found out about victims of crime (16) There have been a number of burglaries reported in your local newspaper. Many people are now afraid that they will become a victim of burglary. Using your knowledge of psychology, suggest how you might reduce peopleís fear of becoming a victim of crime. Give reasons for your answer (8)  Describe explanations of criminal behaviour. Evaluate explanations of criminal behaviour. The police are concerned that a number of young people are meeting outside a local shop at night and vandalising cars. Using your understanding of the social psychology of the criminals Give reasons for their behaviour. Describe what psychologists have found out about criminal thinking patterns. Evaluate what psychologists have found out criminal thinking patterns. You are a probation officer running a treatment group for persistent offenders. Using your knowledge of criminal thinking patterns, how will you try to encourage your group that crime does not pay? Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about offender punishments and treatments and preventing crime. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about offender punishments and treatments and preventing crime. Your local football team is experiencing problems with hooligans. Using your knowledge of psychology, what strategies might you use to reduce the amount of hooliganism? Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about offender profiling. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about offender profiling. You have been asked to develop a profile to help identify someone who has stolen a baby from hospital. Suggest the steps you will go through to develop this profile. Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about witness testimony. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about witness testimony, Suggest ways that the police can increase the accuracy of witness testimony. Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about the police and police methods. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about the police and police methods. You have been asked to help write guidance for the police on interviewing suspects. Suggest what you should include. Give reasons for your answer. Describe what psychologists have found out about victims of crime. Evaluate what psychologists have found out about victims of crime. The police are trying to design a leaflet to encourage people to report crime. Using your knowledge of crime-victim interaction suggest what factors they should consider. Give reasons for your answer.