FORENSIC BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS
QUIZ #3 COMPLETELY SOLVED
{GRADED A+}
Forensic - ✔✔Refers to the application of scientific methods and
techniques to the investigation or detection of crime.
Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔Involves the observation of the cause and effect
relationship between individual actions and their precipitating variables.
What made her do that?
Forensic Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔The process by which criminal actions
are understood through comprehensive investigation of all possible
contributing factors.
The application of behavioral analysis in the court setting.
,Forensic Behavioral Analysis Importance & Implications - ✔✔Investigating
a crime
Prosecuting a crime
Sentencing
Prevention
Ethics of Forensic Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔Your conclusions have
consequences for many lives. Thorough analysis is MANDATORY.
All theories and analyses should have supporting documentation.
Classical Theory - ✔✔People have free will to choose criminal behavior to
meet their needs or solve their problems.
Crime may be more attractive because it requires less work and has
greater reward.
Crime can be controlled only by fear of punishment.
Rational Choice - ✔✔Criminal behaviors occur based on risk/reward
analysis.
, Routine Activities - ✔✔Crime is a factor of motivation, target availability,
and lack of supervision.
General Deterrence - ✔✔Crime is a factor of the severity, certainty, and
speed of punishment.
Incapacitation - ✔✔If you are a known criminal, you will commit a crime
again and must be taken out of the community.
Positivist Theory - ✔✔Criminal behavior is precipitated by external factors
not often within an individual's control.
Factors can be biological, psychological, or sociological.
Relies on the scientific method.
Biochemistry - ✔✔Diet, Hormones, Contaminants
Neurophysiology - ✔✔Brain structure, damage, or chemistry
Genetics - ✔✔Inherited traits (i.e. aggression, addiction, impulsivity)
Psychodynamic - ✔✔Personality is controlled by unconscious mental
processes developed in early childhood, involving the interaction of id, ego,
and superego.
QUIZ #3 COMPLETELY SOLVED
{GRADED A+}
Forensic - ✔✔Refers to the application of scientific methods and
techniques to the investigation or detection of crime.
Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔Involves the observation of the cause and effect
relationship between individual actions and their precipitating variables.
What made her do that?
Forensic Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔The process by which criminal actions
are understood through comprehensive investigation of all possible
contributing factors.
The application of behavioral analysis in the court setting.
,Forensic Behavioral Analysis Importance & Implications - ✔✔Investigating
a crime
Prosecuting a crime
Sentencing
Prevention
Ethics of Forensic Behavioral Analysis - ✔✔Your conclusions have
consequences for many lives. Thorough analysis is MANDATORY.
All theories and analyses should have supporting documentation.
Classical Theory - ✔✔People have free will to choose criminal behavior to
meet their needs or solve their problems.
Crime may be more attractive because it requires less work and has
greater reward.
Crime can be controlled only by fear of punishment.
Rational Choice - ✔✔Criminal behaviors occur based on risk/reward
analysis.
, Routine Activities - ✔✔Crime is a factor of motivation, target availability,
and lack of supervision.
General Deterrence - ✔✔Crime is a factor of the severity, certainty, and
speed of punishment.
Incapacitation - ✔✔If you are a known criminal, you will commit a crime
again and must be taken out of the community.
Positivist Theory - ✔✔Criminal behavior is precipitated by external factors
not often within an individual's control.
Factors can be biological, psychological, or sociological.
Relies on the scientific method.
Biochemistry - ✔✔Diet, Hormones, Contaminants
Neurophysiology - ✔✔Brain structure, damage, or chemistry
Genetics - ✔✔Inherited traits (i.e. aggression, addiction, impulsivity)
Psychodynamic - ✔✔Personality is controlled by unconscious mental
processes developed in early childhood, involving the interaction of id, ego,
and superego.
