The second stage in the development of violent behavior includes:

A. distal factors
B. conduct disorder
C. poor parenting
D. peers

research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?

A. Anger management
B. Encoding social cues
C. Deception
D. Memory retrieval

Which extensive, longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

A. aggression replacement training
B. what works program
C. statement validity assessment
D. the stanford study

As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?

A. Indiscriminate of treatment programme helps to reduce recidivism.
B. The type of treatment programme is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioural and multi- model approaches.
C. The most successful studies, while behavioural in nature, include a cognitive component.
D. The most effective programmes have low treatment integrity.

The qualities of successful rehabilitation programs to treat offenders include.

A. Cognitive interviews
B. Offender profiling
C. Being community- based
D. Focus on the relationship with parents

Aggression and violent conduct can be best predicted by:

A. Antisocial behavior
B. History of mental illness
C. Family criminality
D. A and c

Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as ‘clinical’ in style while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’.
B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge.
C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence.
D. Profiling common characteristics of know offenders involves gathering data about the crime from multiple sources.

The following qualities make a good liar except for:

A. Preparing a story on the spot
B. Being original
C. Not experiencing ability
D. Not experiencing emotion

All of the following refers to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for:

A. Leadings questions
B. Change perspective
C. Reporting everything
D. Context reinstatement

An issue that is boarder than the strength of the evidence concerns its validity when applied to the real world. Bearing that in mind, which of the following would be relevants to ask?

A. Do the findings from psychological studies parallel what happens to real crime witnesses?
B. Should research findings be made available to the court to influence real trials?
C. Both a and b.
D. Neither a nor b.