Forensic Psychology and Criminology Diploma

Course Key Topics

Criminology

Introduction to Criminology

Chapter 1: Social Order Maintenance in Celtic & Roman Britain

Chapter 2: Inequality before the Law

Chapter 3: Criminalisation

Chapter 4: Classicism and Positivism

Chapter 5: The Anglo American Model and the Chicago School of Criminology

Chapter 6: Anomie, Social Control & Deviant Subculture Theories

Chapter 7: Administrative Criminology

Chapter 8: Labelling Theory

Chapter 9: Right Realism

Chapter 10: Left Idealism and Left Realism

Chapter 11: Feminist Criminology

Chapter 12: Ethnicity and Crime

Chapter 13: Mentally Disordered Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 14: Young Offenders and the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 15: Children and Criminology

Chapter 16: Agencies of Social Control

Chapter 17: The National Probation Service

Chapter 18: Incarceration and Punishment

Chapter 19: White Collar Crime

Chapter 20: Violent Crime

Forensic Psychology

Module 1: The Science of Psychology

Module 2: Introducing Basic Statistics

Module 3: Psychology and Violent Crime

Module 4: Serial Killers

Module 5: Crime and Substance Abuse

Module 6: Child Abuse

Module 7: The Evidence of Children

Module 8: Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatric Defences

Module 9: Mental Disorder as a Defence

Module 10: Eyewitness Testimony

Module 11: Psychology in a Correctional Setting

Module 12: Psychology and Police Selection, Recruitment and Training

Module 13: Police Stress

Module 14: The Decision to Assist

Module 15: The Research Proposal and the Research Project Report

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