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The social learning theory is a concept that tries to explain human aggressive through direct observation and imitation for example if a child saw their parent act aggressively towards another person t...

Schema-a schema is a mental representation of an aspect of the world. Stereotype is a word often used instead of schema. For example if I asked you to write down all the words you woul...

Piaget believed that children are not able to undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. These developments don’t happen entirely smoothly and there are stages where...

When psychologists use the term Offender Profiling, they are referring to the use of both the Geographical Approach and the Typology Approach in identifying the personality and behavioural characterist...

One way that is used for measuring crime is official statistics which involves comparing statistics from government bodies and agencies, such as the police, courts and prisons. Official statistics come...