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"Criminal Psychology Course"

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Student Profile
This programme is designed for anyone interested in the psychology of crime and learning more about the use of psychology in crime, its detection and prevention.

Aims
The aims of this course are to;
• Recognise how different research methods can help us research criminal behaviours
• Understand how psychology can help us to understand why some people turn to crime
• Appreciate how criminal psychology can be useful to criminal investigations
• Understand how criminal psychology can be useful in prosecutions
• Recognise how criminal psychology can be help convicted criminals

Study Method
The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. Students receive course manual, assignments and studyguide plus tutor support by mail and email. You can start at any time and plan your studies over a period of up to one year from the time of enrolment.

Assessment
Each element is followed by a written assignment, which is submitted and then marked by your tutor. There is no external examination required.

Course Accreditation
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a level 3 NCFE Award certificate of achievement. That means that it is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to level 3 on the Qualifications & Curriculum Framework (QCF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The course is provided in conjunction with Kendal Publishing Limited – a licenced NCFE centre.

NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland

Pack/Course Contents
Your study pack is dispatched in full at the time of enrolment and provides all you need to complete your studies:

• Studyguide
• Comprehensive study notes for each element of the course
• Self-assessment activities
• Assignments
• Tutor support
• Assignment marking & feedback
• Certification

Course Duration
Students may register at any time and have a full year to complete their studies. The course will take around 120 hours of study to complete.

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 Psychological 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

Inc P&P: £230.00