A star graded essay plans on questions surrounding Criminal Behaviour, primarily useful in paper 3 psychology but also applicable to other papers. Each essay plan is written in an easy to understand table format which is clearly labelled. The tables are used to ensure that all criteria is met in th...
Describes the characteristics of criminal behaviour 10 marks
Point
What is criminal - Criminal behaviour is an act or omission that violates the laws or rules of society
behaviour? and may result in a consequence or punishment.
What is deviant - Deviant behaviour is behaviour that violates the norms and values of society.
behaviour ?
What is fraud - Fraud is an act that uses deception and trickery in order to gain an unfair
advantage over another.
- Common traits include, being predominantly white males, having a need for
control, they are motivated by personal gain and risk taking.
- These include white collar crimes (crimes that are committed against a business
such as fiddling expenses)
- Can also be used to explain the increase in cybercrimes and online scams such
as selling fake festival tickets.
What is a serial killer - A serial killer is an offender that has committed 2 or more unlawful killings over
separate events (there must be a period of time in between them)
- - hedonistic serial killers – these are individuals that kill for the thrill or
gratification that they gain from the killing. ( this can include any sexual
motivation e.g ted Bundy).
- Mission serial killers – these are individual that kill in order to remove a specific
group from society (for example the Yorkshire ripper who believed he was
killing all prostitutes to cleanse society)
- Common traits e.g lack empath and display predatory behaviour (such as
stalking), they are likely to have experienced childhood trauma.
- Characteristics = 25-34 years old, intelligent and street smart, predominantly
male and are charismatic and charming
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