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Lecture notes psychological criminology (CR6015) Introduction to Statistics in Psychology, ISBN: 9780273734307
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notes from Dr Emma Davies lectures on psychological criminology.
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Psychological criminologyCHRIS WATTS
Week 1:
Core reading: moodle
Crime: indiv approaches, group influence/socialisation theories, community or
locality theories and societal or macro theories
PC: Law, legal systems, victims and offenders
Exam: revise 5/6 topics
Dimensions of forensic pysch:
Police psyc: recruitment stress
Investigation: profiling, geographical profiling
Clinical: assessment prediction
Prison: treatment parole/release
Biological: inheritance of criminality, effects of injury (epigenetics)
Development: aggression, delinquency
Cognitive: eyewitness testimony interviewing
Social: juries, media influences
History:
,Estimating levels of crime:
Victim of crime surveys
Police records/ reports of crime
Court stats of processed or convicted crimes
General population offender surveys
Prison stats of numbers imprisoned
Looking across jurisdictions:
,Seminar:
Memorabilia: John Schwenk
prized items include a portrait by John Wayne Gacy, known as the
Killer Clown, a children’s party entertainer who raped and murdered at
least 33 boys and young men in Chicago during the 1970s; a drawing
of a skull by Richard Ramirez, aka the 'Night Stalker', responsible for
numerous murders and sexual assaults in California in 1984 and
1985; and several pieces by Charles Manson, leader of the criminal
cult the Manson Family, who orchestrated the brutal killing of the
pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others around Los Angeles in
1969
feeding frenzy: nothing new, since the 19th century
indulge in fantasies without acting out on them
to get “as close to the abyss as you can while not falling in” (isis
execution videos)
we like to be terrified
Real-life serial killers are transformed into larger-than-
life celebrity monsters through the combined efforts of law
enforcement authorities, and the news and entertainment media, that
feed the public’s appetite for the macabre (IT, night crawler)
cannot understand it and feel compelled to.
offers a safe and secure outlet for our darkest thoughts, feelings, and
urges (humanize w serial killers)
, Week 2: crime and the public
(case of serial killing)
defining and estimating the extent of multiple murders:
defining derail murder: (blurring of myth and fact)
fascinated w serial killers
media/film industry/poor academic research responsible for blurring myth and fact
about serial murder
no universally accepted definition of serial murder
FBi coined term ‘serial murder’ early 1980s
killing several victims in 3 or more separate incidents over extended time period
included temporal criterion w a cooling off or refectory period between killings
dietz (1986) defined serial murder as including at least 5 victims murdered in similar
fashion or victims have something in common
multiple murders:
mass murder: 3 or more killings one location w no time break between murders
spree killings: two or more locations w almost no time break (DOES NOT HELP TO
UNDERSTAND, investigate, prevent)
scale or problem (incredible rare)
go to slide for stats (find new stats)
estimating scale of serial killing is difficult bc:
difference in legal definitions between countries
accessing serial killers to interview for research purposes is challenging
murder inquiries open as missing persons inquiries
serial killers overestimate number of victims
marginalised groups (homeless, prostitutes, disappearances not be reported
disposing victims bodies really well
not linked by police bc not recognised as work of the same offender
murders committed hard to solve w lack of motive and evidence
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