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14 Cards in this Set
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Criminal Behaviour |
An act that is against the law |
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Types of crime |
violent, drug related, acquisitive, sexual and anti-social offences |
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Social construct |
A concept that exists as the result of interactions between people who make up society |
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Subjectivity |
Based on personal opinion rather than fact |
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Limitations of criminal behaviour being a social construct |
Difficult to define; changes over time/ by culture; can artificially create increases in criminal behaviour without any changes to actual behaviour (if behaviour A that is commonplace- I.e smoking- is suddenly outlawed there will be a marked increase in crime without a change in behaviour. |
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Deviation from norms |
When an act or behaviour goes against the accepted standards of society |
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Culture |
A collective set of norms and values that determine the way of life of a group of people |
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Anti social behavior |
Behaviour by a person which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as the person (Antisocial behaviour Act 2003 & Police Reform and social responsibility act 2011) |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986) Overview |
Social learning theory study. A study into the transmission of aggression through imitation and aggressive models. Hypothesis: playing an aggressive video game compared to other video games would lead to increased aggression in children. Findings: Showed some evidence of children's play imitating the kinds of behaviours they had observed in computer games, supporting Social learning theory |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986) Method |
Lab experiment Design: Independent groups Sample: 84 9-11 year olds (New Jersey) Independent variable: Type of game, whether it was observed or played Dependent variable: Aggression levels |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986)- materials used |
Missile Command Video Game Pac Man video game Star Wars and Tron paper-and-pen maze warrior figure basketball set pinball machine building blocks buzzer questionnaire for recording previous experience of video games questionnaire for rating games played in the experiment |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986) Controls |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986) Conclusions |
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Cooper and Mackie (1986) Criticisms |
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