Crime and Criminology: Offender Profiling

The final WJEC Criminology PowerPoint provides an overview of offender profiling covering things like: • Evidence and the crime scene • British and American approaches to profiling • Examples of profiling successes and failures • A Scenario that requires students to both apply any psychological theory with which they are familiar to the crime depicted […]

Measuring Crime

This large (30-odd slide) PowerPoint Presentation was (I’m guessing) put together by Dave Bown as part of the WJEC textbook project (I think he wrote / co-wrote the online A2 eBook). It’s an interesting and wide-ranging resource that introduces a number of different topics related to the practice and problem of measuring crime. These include: […]

Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 4

The fourth WJEC Criminology PowerPoint offering provides an overview of feminist approaches to crime and criminality and, as you might expect, follows the format of the previous Presentations in this series: • brief Introductory and summary Notes • discussion questions • short activities • suggestions for further personal / independent research • a “scenario” exercise […]

Psych’d Magazine Issue 2

Psych’d is a twice-yearly (October and July) Psychology Magazine, published by WJEC (formerly the Welsh Joint Examining Committee) designed to support teachers and students studying for the WJEC and Eduqas A-level Psychology qualifications. While, as you might expect, the magazine contains material (CPD events, important dates and recommended textbooks) specific to these particular exam boards, […]

Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 3

The third WJEC Criminology offering – again I’m thinking it’s by Janis Griffiths – focuses on Sociological theories of criminality and serves as a brief introduction to: • Marxism, • Functionalism, • Interactionism and • Realism. The main content here is basically a one-screen summary of key points so it’s probably best seen as a […]

Psych’d Magazine

Psych’d is a twice-yearly (October and July) Psychology Magazine, published by WJEC (formerly the Welsh Joint Examining Committee) and designed, in the words of its editor, “to provide key information, suggestions for teaching, updates and news as well as interesting features relating to our WJEC and Eduqas Psychology qualifications”.  Although the magazine contains stuff (applying […]

Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 2

The second WJEC Criminology offering – I’m taking an educated guess that it’s by Janis Griffiths – focuses on Individualistic theories of criminality and, in particular, the assumption that criminal behaviour is related to particular types of criminal personality. This is illustrated by short Notes on three different theories and their major proponents:  1.     Eysenck […]

Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 1

It’s probably fair to say that over the years attempts by different UK Exam Boards to provide teaching and learning materials for Sociology have, in the main, been somewhat half-hearted. The general position seems to be that while this new Internet-thingy confers a range of opportunities to provide teachers with information and guidance, providing teaching […]

GCSE Psychology: Revision Booklet

The final offering in this short GCSE Psychology series is a revision booklet by R Cummins of Knowsley College that covers both Unit 1: Making sense of other people (Memory, Non-verbal communication, Development of personality, Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination and Research methods).  Unit 2: Understanding other people (Learning, Social influence, Sex and Gender, Aggression, and […]

GCSE Psychology: Unit 2

Having posted stuff for AQA Psychology Unit 1 it’s probably only fair to do the same for Unit 2 so today’s post focuses on two offerings 1. Understanding Other People: This resource, created by T Mitchell, consists of information and activities – plus a few revision tips – focused on various aspects of Conditioning. There’s […]