Criminal Psychology Level 3
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One of my companions did a course with this school and prescribed it to me. I was amazed they were open bank holiday - I have recently shared a word with agood natured person who has helped me pick a course. Truly awed.
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Vocational qualification
Online
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
90h
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Duration
6 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
The role of the criminal (or forensic) psychologist is becoming increasingly popular for people choosing a career. This home study course in criminal psychology is diverse, interesting and challenging, it is designed for anyone interested in the psychology of crime and learning more about the use of psychology in crime, its detection and prevention.
The Criminal aspect of Psychology is often one of the most popular - Studying and observing the criminal's mind for intentions, thoughts and aberrant behaviour.
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About this course
On this course you will:
Recognise how different research methods can help us research criminal behaviours
Recognise how criminal psychology can help convicted criminals
Understand how psychology can help us to understand why some people turn to crime
The course is relevant for solicitors, lawyers, law enforcement personnel, security workers, prison workers, teachers and trainers and anyone interested in learning more about criminal behaviour and how it can arise.
If you are interested in criminal behaviour and want to help offenders make positive changes, then this course is ideal for you.
On this
You don't need any prior skills in the subject area to start this course.
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement by ABC Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the details all of the units you have completed as part of your course).
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One of my companions did a course with this school and prescribed it to me. I was amazed they were open bank holiday - I have recently shared a word with agood natured person who has helped me pick a course. Truly awed.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Sharon Kaur
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Subjects
- Criminal Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Rehabilitation
- Psychology
- IT
- Ethics
- Biology
- Physiology
- Criminal law
- Criminal investigations
- Investigating
- Behaviour programmes
- Rehabilitating prisoners
- Witness reliability
- Interviewing witnesses
- Detecting lies
- Detecting false confessions
- Geographic profiling
- Behavioural Theories
Course programme
- Defining criminal psychology
- Scope of criminal psychology
- Roles of the criminal psychologist
- The scientific method of psychological research
- Ethical considerations of psychological research
- Designing a research study/experiment:
- Focus of the research
- The hypothesis
- Data collection methods
- Analysing the data
- Reaching conclusions
- Reporting the results
- The usefulness of psychological research
- Factors that influence the incidence of criminal activity
- The major perspectives that try to explain causes of criminal behaviour:
- Biological/physiological theories
- Cognitions theories
- Behavioural theories
- Developmental theories
- Investigating a crime
- Witness reliability
- Factors that affect memory acquisition
- Factors that affect memory retention
- Factor s that affect memory retrieval
- Interviewing witnesses
- Interviewing suspects
- Detecting lies
- Detecting false confessions
- Offender profiling
- Geographic profiling
- An overview of courtroom procedures
- How witnesses can affect a jury’s decision
- How child witnesses can affect a jury’s decision
- How expert witnesses can affect a jury’s decision
- How the judicial system can affect a jury’s decision
- How the juror reaches a decision
- Group decision making
- Group behaviour
- A Brief history of punishments
- The range of punishments
- Imprisonment
- Problems inmates encounter in prison
- Support available in prisons
- Alternatives to imprisonment
- Rehabilitating prisoners
- Offender behaviour programmes
Each unit is followed by a written tutor marked assignment (TMA), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor. You will not be required to take an external exam.
Criminal Psychology Level 3