More detailed studies are important to help answer the effectiveness of DTC to rehabilitate better than incarceration. This research will improve upon the other studies by attempting to solve their limitations. The idea of a third unknown variable resulting in a successful rehabilitation will be answered by continually surveying the 100 participants to the reason for their success. The limitation of not being made aware of an out of state arrest could be monitored by yearly checkups of the participants. The implication of proving that DTCs can better rehabilitate offenders than correctional facilities would revolutionize the judicial response to drug related crimes.
The term eyewitness testimony (EWT) is actually a legal term, referring to the use of eyewitness (or earwitness) to give evidence in court concerning the identity of someone who has committed a crime. Psychologists tend to use the term ‘eyewitness memory’ instead of ‘testimony’ when carrying out research to test the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. Loftus and Palmer (1974) were interested in the accuracy of memory after witnessing a car accident, in particular to see if leading questions distorted the accuracy of an eyewitness’s immediate recall. Forty-five students were shown seven films of different traffic accidents. After each film the participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to describe the accident and then answer a series of specific questions about it.
In 1971, a psychologist named Phillip Zimbardo had the idea to hold an experiment that would study the impact of becoming a prisoner or a guard at a prison. Zimbardo’s main focus was to expand on Milgram’s study of situational behaviors. A newspaper ad was put out asking for volunteers to be in a psychological study. Those that responded were picked up at their homes as if they were being arrested. They were completely convinced that they were actually being arrested.
The last would be to change the perspective of the scene. Imagining how other witnesses would be able to see what happened at the scene. There has been research that has supported the effectiveness of cognitive interview (CI). In 1999 Kohnken et al studied 53 meta-analysis in which it was compared CI to the normal police interview. From the studies they found that the amount of precise information recollected was significantly higher when using CI.
7. Interferential statistics is the data that lets a person generalize, or in simpler terms, lets a person determine something by looking at the probability of it. 8. The three principles you should keep in mind to make sure your generalizations are reliable are representative samples are much more adequate than biased samples, less-variable observations are much more reliable than not variable observations, and the more cases, the better. 9.
There are many different kinds of ways to research. These research methods include correlation, case study, naturalistic and laboratory observations, surveys and of course experiment. In class we watch a documentary of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In this experiment a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo, studied the psychological effects of turning Stanford students into prisoners or prison guards. The experiment was conducted from August 14-20, 1971.
The best result of each parameter for each algorithm is shown bold in Table 5.1. The maximum number of iterations is set at 100. Table 5.1 shows the effect of variation of population on best fitness and standard deviation (SD). It is clear from the table, that population size of 100 produces good results for all the three algorithms and result of KHAMCD can be seen to be the best among all. Fig.5.1 shows the convergence characteristics for functions f1 to f5.
This particular topic used random selected classes from a list, when a class was selected the professor was notified about the study and that their participation was solicited. The researchers administered a anonymous survey to the respondents. This survey was approximately twenty minutes to completely. The survey consisted of basic demographic characteristics of the participants, and asked if they ever had been a victim of stalking. If the participants identified themselves as stalking victims, there were then asked a series of questions related to their stalking experience.
Interrogations and Confessions George R Williams Forensic Psychology CJ4641 Ms. Chau August 25, 2015 Abstract This paper presents to the reader an overview of the traumatic experience involved in a police interrogation. It also highlights the possibilities of an innocent person confessing to a crime. The thought of giving a false confessing to a crime is preposterous, but it does happen. The trip will begin with a description of the interrogation room. There will be an initial interview with the interrogators.
“It will teach them to develop the self-management skills needed in order to achieve this goal”. The core program places emphasis on treatment as a multifaceted approach, with cognitive restructuring, modelling and positive reinforcement at the center of treatment and the average length of the program is 180 hours. Statistics have shown that a program length between 80 and 100 hours has a much greater benefit to offenders that have been deemed to be a lower risk of reconviction, only those men deemed to be of a medium to high risk of re-offending are placed onto the core program. Because it has been found that lower-risk individuals will respond well to programs of around 80-100 hours in length, only men judged to be at medium or high risk of reconviction for sexual offences are given places on the Core Program. If a convicted sex offender is believed to need any extra treatment above the core program, he would be required to undergo a further stage of treatment.