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Micro-credential certification in Criminal Psychology PSY3174 (BPSY)
Overview:
This subject focuses on a detailed look into the views, thoughts, actions and reactions of crimes and criminal behaviour. It highlights on what may lead to a crime, how a criminal behaviour may be prevente and the effects of crimnes onto the partakers and the society in general from a psychological perspectives.
Awarding Body:
This programme is designed, delivered, assessed and awarded by SEGi University through the SEGiUniDigital Platform.
Discipline:
Psychology
Entry Requirements:
Entry Requirements - No
Age Experience - 23 Years Above
Language Proficiency - Yes
Numeracy Proficiency - No
Pre-requisites - No
Contents:
- Introduction to Criminal Behavior
- Theories of Crime; Theoretical Perspectives on Human Nature
- Disciplinary Perspectives in Criminology; Sociological Criminology; Psychological Criminology
- Defining and Measuring Crime; Uniform Crime Reporting System; Report Studies; Victimization Surveys; Juvenile Delinquency
- Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
- Cumulative Risk Model; Developmental Cascade Model
- Social Environment Risk Factors; Poverty; Peer Rejection and Association with Antisocial Peers; Preschool Experiences; After-School Care; Academic Failure
- Parental and Family Risk Factors; Single-Parent Households; Parental Styles and Practices; Influence of Siblings; Parental Psychopathology
- Psychological Risk Factors; Lack of Attachment; Lack of Empathy; Cognitive and Language Deficiencies Intelligence and Delinquency; ADHD and Criminal Behavior; Conduct Disorder; Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
- Genetics and Antisocial Behavior; Behavior Genetics Studies of Twins; the Twins’ Early Development Study; Twin Study of Child and Adolescent Development Adoption Studies
- Molecular Genetics; Psychophysiological Factors Temperament; Environmental Risk Factors; Neurotoxins; Prenatal and Postnatal Malnutrition; Traumatic Brain Injury Brain Development Abnormalities ; Hormones and Neurotransmitters Neuropsychological Factors
- Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and Situational Factors
- Behaviorism as a Method of Science; Behaviorism as a Perspective of Human Nature; Skinnerian Concepts; Operant Learning and Crime; Social Expectancy Theory; Imitational Aspects of Social Learning; Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory
- Frustration-Induced Criminality; the Socialized and Individual Offender; Frustration-Induced Riots Frustration and Crime; Situational Instigators and Regulators of Criminal Behavior; Authority as an Instigator of Criminal Behavior
- Deindividuation; the Stanford Prison Experiment; the BBC Prison Study; The Bystander Effect; Moral Disengagement
- Human Aggression and Violence
- Defining Aggression; Hostile and Instrumental Aggression; Interpretation by Victim
- Theoretical Perspectives on Aggression; Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic Viewpoint; Ethological Viewpoints; Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
- Weapons Effect; Excitation Transfer Theory; Displaced Aggression Theory; Social Learning Factors in Aggression and Violence
- Modeling; Observation Modeling; Cognitive Models of Aggression; Cognitive Scripts Model; Hostile Attribution Model; The General Aggression Model; I³ Theory
- Overt and Covert Acts of Aggression; Reactive and Proactive Forms of Aggression
- Gender Differences in Aggression; Effects of Media Violence; Copycat Crime or Contagion Effect "
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Definitions of Delinquency; Legal Definition; Social Definition Psychological Definitions
- Nature and Extent of Juvenile Offending Status Offenses; the Serious Delinquent
- Gender Differences in Juvenile Offending Developmental Theories of Delinquency; Moffitt’s Developmental Theory; Steinberg’s Dual Systems Model; Coercion Developmental Theory; Callous-Unemotional Trait Theory Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment of Juvenile Offending
- Treatment and Rehabilitation Strategies Characteristics of Successful Programs
- Classification of Prevention and Treatment Programs Primary Prevention
- Selective or Secondary Prevention
- Psychopathy
- Antisocial Personality Disorder; Examples of Primary Psychopaths;
- Psychological Testing Differences; Psychopaths and Mental Disorders; Psychopaths and Suicide;
- Psychological Measures of Psychopathy
- The PCL-R; Criticisms of the PCL-R
- Core Factors of Psychopathy; the Two-Factor Position; the Three-Factor Position; the Four-Factor Model; The Boldness Factor; the Meanness Factor; the Female Psychopath
- Racial/Ethnic Differences
- Juvenile Psychopathy; Can Juvenile Psychopathy Be Identified?
- Measures of Juvenile Psychopathy Neurobiological Factors and Psychopathy; Genetic Factors
- The Dual-Process Model of Psychopathy;
- Treatment of Criminal Psychopaths; Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Psychopathic
- Case study: Clifford Robert Olson; Adremy Dennis; Joanna Dennehy
- Crime and Mental Disorders
- Defining Mental Illness; the DSM
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders; Bipolar Disorder Major Depressive Disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Competency and Criminal Responsibility; Incompetency to Stand Trial; Criminal Responsibility; Insanity Standards; Guilty but Mentally Ill; Unique Defenses and Conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Dissociative Identity Disorder; Dissociative Amnesia
- Mental Disorder and Violence; Research on the Violence of the Mentally Disordered; the MacArthur Research Network; Police and the Mentally Disordered; Mentally Disordered Inmates; Dangerousness and the Assessment of Risk;
- Case study: Tarasoff Case; Rene Poole; Margaret Mary Ray; Vincent Li
- Multiple Murder, School and Workplace Violence
- Investigative Psychology; Forms of Profiling; Psychological Profiling; Suspect-Based Profiling Geographical Profiling; Crime Scene Profiling;
- Equivocal Death Analysis Multiple Murders; Serial Murders; Choice of Victims and Modus Operandi
- Geographical Location of Serial Killing Ethnic and Racial Characteristics; Risk Factors and Psychological Motives
- Research on Backgrounds; Female Serial Killers; Juvenile Serial Killers; Mass Murderers; Public Mass Shootings; A Mass Murder Typology; School Violence; School Shootings; Psychological Characteristics of School Shooters
- Workplace Violence; Categories of Workplace Violence; Perpetrators of Workplace Violence
- Psychology of Modern Terrorism
- Definitions and Examples; Classification of Terrorist Groups; A Terrorist Typology
- Followers and Leaders: Who Joins and Who Leads; Why Do They Join?
- Quest for Significance Theory; Terror Management Theory; Suicidal Terrorism
- Becoming a Terrorist: The Process of Radicalization
- Terrorist Leaders; Lone Wolf Terrorists
- Boston Marathon Bombers; Fort Hood Shooter; the Times Square Bombing Attempt
- The Psychosocial Context of Terrorism; Terrorist Motives and Justifications
- Additional Disengagement Practices; Psychological Effects and Nature of Terrorism; Cognitive Restructuring; Moral Development
- Violent Economic Crime, Cybercrime, and Crimes of Intimidation
- Robbery; Bank Robbery; Amateurs and Professionals; Commercial Robbery; Street Robbery; Motives and Cultural Influences Robbery by Groups
- Cybercrime; Privacy Concerns and Cybercrime Laws; Psychological Characteristics of Cybercriminals; Stalking; Categories of Stalking; Cyberstalking; Cyberbullying
- Hostage-Taking Offenses; Instrumental and Expressive Hostage Taking; FBI Categories of Hostage Taking; Strategies for Dealing with Hostage Takers; The Stockholm Syndrome; Rules for Hostages to Follow
- Arson; Incidence and Prevalence; Fire setting; Female Arsonists
- Psychological Disorders
- Case study: Ray Rice
Assessments:
Coursework - 60%
Exam - 40%
Credit Transfer:
Upon successful completion of this Micro-credential certification in Criminal Psychology (BPSY), students will be able to transfer grades and credits into the following programme(s):
- Bachelor of Psychology