Forensic Psychology (Level 3) Course

Course Structure

Unit 1: Introduction to Forensic Psychology

• History of development of Forensic Psychology

Unit 2: Research Methods in Forensic Psychology

• Research Design and Methodology
• Critical evaluation of psychological research

Unit 3: Theories of offending

• Introduction to theories of offending
• Theories of sexual offending
• Theories of violent offending
• Theories of fire-setting behaviour

Unit 4: Personal Attributes of Offenders

• Personal characteristics of offenders
• Personality disordered offenders
• Psychopathic offenders
• Mental Illness and offending

Unit 5: Forensic Psychology in Police Investigations – Offender Profiling

• An Introduction to Offender Profiling
• Approaches to Offender Profiling
• The Effectiveness of Offender Profiling

Unit 6: Forensic Psychology in the Courtroom

• Eye-witness testimony
• Expert Witness testimony
• Attitudes towards victims

Unit 7: Forensic Psychology in Practice

• ‘What works’ literature in reducing re-offending
• Interventions to reduce risk of re-offending
• Incident management (Crisis Negotiation)

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