PROJECT LANGUAGE: KILLER TERMS TO KNOW
[FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT, THE WORD ' CRIMINAL' IS USED TO MEAN SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF PERCEIVED UNLAWFUL ACTIONS]
Actus Reus: An act that constitutes a crime.
Mens Rea: The intention to commit the act that constitutes a crime.
Conventional Morality
Consideration of society (where people are considerate of social norms and order).
Pre-Conventional Morality
Consideration of the self (divided into stages of punishment and reward).
Post-conventional Morality
Consideration of our own mind (the highest level of moral development where people are concerned with the rights of humans and are guided by their ethical principles).
Hostile Attribution Bias
A cognitive style that assumes that other people's actions are somehow an adverse reaction to the self. This is often a case of misperception.
Recidivism
Relapsing into criminal behavior (typically after having crime prevention intervention).
Neuroticism
A long-term tendency to be in a negative emotional state.
Psychoticism:
A personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility. High levels of this trait were believed to be linked to increased vulnerability to psychosis, such as schizophrenia.
Rehabilitation
To restore the mindset and behavior of an offender to be a non-offender.
Limbic System
A central part of the brain (regarded as the primitive area) where emotions are modulated.
Institutionalization
Being confined installs you with different beliefs/norms/social roles/values, or modes of behavior which you are used to.
Restorative Justice Programmes
A new type of intervention whereby offenders meet their victim(s) and attempt to realize the implications of their actions, repair the harm they have caused, and overall have a better relationship with themself, their victims, and society.
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