Forensic Psycology Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
1. Select a case from the case list and find a news story on
2. Use three concepts from the concept list to write an essay on the case or experience:
Summarize the story IN YOUR OWN WORDS in one paragraph;
b. Analyze the story in 1-3 paragraphs. You can address the following questions:
Why did it happen? How did the parties involved feel? What were they thinking? Could the incident have been prevented? What could have been done to improve the well-being of the parties involved?’
The case list and the concept list are revised periodically.
-Format
1. The write-up should be about 300-500 words.
2. It must be typed and double-spaced.
3. The three concepts used must be identified by boldfacing/underlining/italicizing.
4. You must include the web link to the case or a hard copy of the story in the assignment.
CASE LIST
The following individuals can be victims, offenders or persons allegedly involved in at least one incident with the kind in the brackets.
Yahya Abdirahman (assault)
Harold Backer (fraud)
Karim Baratov (hacking)
Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame (hostage)
Alexandre Bissonnette (murder)
Nikolas Cruz (shooting)
Ronjot Singh Dhami (physical assault)
Liam Durham (kidnapping)
Josef Fritzl (incest)
Morgan Geyser (murder)
Anthony Hanemaayer (wrongful conviction)
Viktor Hohots (lawyer misconduct)
Paulin Janvier (fraud)
Alicia Elizabeth Lander (indecent act)
Amanda Lindhout (hostage)
David Livingston (government)
Tammy Marquardt (wrongful conviction)
Lyle and Marie McCann (missing or murdered)
Alek Minassian (rampage)
Ronny Munoz-Hernandez (child maltreatment)
Stephane Parent (murder)
Skylar Prockner (murder)
Ahmed Rabah (sexual assault)
Margaret Mary Ray (stalking)
Sandra Rinella (murder)
James Roszko (murder of police officers)
Moazzam Tariq (sexual assault)
Bryant Taylor (sexual assault)
David and Louise Turpin (child maltreatment)
Harvey Weinstein (sexual assault)
Concepts list
Nature vs. nurture
Repressed memory
Sexsomnia
Operant conditioning
Classical conditioning
Personality trait(s)
Reactive aggression
Instrumental aggression
Mass murder
Serial murder
Mouzos & West (2007)
Pakhomou (2004)
Levin & Genovesi (2011)
Vicary & Fraley (2010)
Familicide
Aldridge & Browne (2003)
Shackelford & Mouzos (2005)
Arboleda-Florez (2007)
Monahan (2011)
Stanley Milgram’s oberdience study
Bartol & Bartol (2014)
Diffusion of responsibility
Self-deindividuation
Sprott & Doob (2008)
Gatti et al. (2005) – each of the three models is counted as one separate concept.
Porter & Alison (2006)
Bennell & Jones (2005)
Brett (2004)
Häkkänen et al. (2004)
Santtila et al. (2003)
Cycle of abuse
Browne (1987)
Currie (2006)
Felsher et al. (2010)
Groth (1979) – each type of rapist is counted as one separate concept.
Dickey et al. (2002)
Rice & Harris (2002)
Adams (2007)
Rayment-McHugh & Nisbet (2003)
Summarize the story IN YOUR OWN WORDS in one paragraph; b. Analyze the story in 1-3 paragraphs. You can address the following questions:
Why did it happen? How did the parties involved feel? What were they thinking? Could the incident have been prevented? What could have been done to improve the well-being of the parties involved?’
James Roszko ambushed and murdered four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada on March 3, 2005 (Pruden, 2011). In the Mayerthorpe tragedy, Roszko took revenge on the police whom he disliked and appears to have carefully planned the murder. The four officers had initially visited Roszko‘s farm to repossess a truck, but he fled together with stolen vehicle parts and later on the ambushed the officers at night. Roszko grew marijuana on his farm, and he had previously been committed property crimes, sexual and violent offenses and he was not allowed to possess guns. Roszko was involved in instrumental aggression as his personality trait indicated he was violent and quick to react to any provocation. This was no random act of violence, but rather Roszko planned to attack the authority figures, whom he did not like. Roszko knew that if officers visited his farm, they were more likely to seize his truck under a civil order. Roszko had a marijuana operation, which was unknown to the police officers at the time, and they secured the property. While Roszko had been struck by an officer’s bullet, he died from s...