There’s no denying our fascination with crime, from watching reruns of
Breaking Bad to reading about real-life crime investigations. But if you’d like to delve deeper into the criminal psyche, we’ve got just the deal for you...
We’re offering you an
online forensic psychology course for just
£19, saving you
90% off Centre of Excellence’s price of £197 (correct as of 9.4.16).
Forensics is the scientific method of gathering and examining evidence for use in criminal investigations. Centre of Excellences’ forensic psychology course outlines the research methods required to understand criminal minds, covering mental disorders, psychiatric defences, eyewitness testimonies and more. You’ll also study the links between substance abuse and crime and will have 24/7 access to the online course with no time limit. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive a certificate to verify your new knowledge.
Modules:
- Introduction to Forensic Psychology
- History of development of Forensic Psychology
- Research Methods in Forensic Psychology
- Research Design and Methodology
- Critical evaluation of psychological research
- Theories of offending
- Introduction to theories of offending
- Theories of sexual offending
- Theories of violent offending
- Theories of fire-setting behaviour
- Personal Attributes of Offenders
- Personal characteristics of offenders
- Personality disordered offenders
- Psychopathic offenders
- Mental Illness and offending
- Forensic Psychology in Police Investigations – Offender Profiling
- An Introduction to Offender Profiling
- Approaches to Offender Profiling
- The Effectiveness of Offender Profiling
- Forensic Psychology in the Courtroom
- Eye-witness testimony
- Expert Witness testimony
- Attitudes towards victims
- Forensic Psychology in Practice
- ‘What works’ literature in reducing re-offending
- Interventions to reduce risk of re-offending
- Incident management (Crisis Negotiation)
