Criminal Psychology (Level 3)
Cambridge Open College
Summary
- Certificate of completion - Free
- Tutor is available to students
Overview
This enlightening study of human behaviour is the perfect introduction to criminal psychology. The reasons criminals behave in certain ways, the way they think about and justify those behaviours, and understanding those factors are revealed in simple terms for the student to get to grips with easily
Description
Unit 1 Introduction
• Defining criminal psychology
• Scope of criminal psychology
• Roles of the criminal psychologist
Unit 2 Researching Criminal Behaviours
• 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
Unit 3 How Criminal Psychology can be used to Understand Crime
• 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
Unit 4 How Criminal Psychology can be used in Criminal Investigations
• Investigating a crime
• Witness reliability
• Factors that affect memory acquisition
• Factors that affect memory retention
• Factors that affect memory retrieval
• Interviewing witnesses
• Interviewing suspects
• Detecting lies
• Detecting false confessions
• Offender profiling
• Geographic profiling
Unit 5 How Criminal Psychology can be used in Prosecutions
• 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
Unit 6 How Criminal Psychology can be used with Convicted Criminals
• 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
Who is this course for?
Are you fascinated by the workings of the human mind? The Criminal Psychology course is accredited through the Focus Awards Focus on Quality Provision (FQP), and is a perfect introduction to the stimulating world of criminal psychology.
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This enlightening study of human behaviour is the perfect introduction to criminal psychology. The reasons criminals behave in certain ways, the way they think about and justify those behaviours, and understanding those factors are revealed in simple terms for the student to get to grips with easily
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