Course description
Psychological Profiling
Level 3:
Unit 1: Seven Seconds
- 3 important factors of an interview
- Cognitive Interview Format
- Communication styles
- Visual
- Auditory
- Kinaesthetic
- Eckman’s theory
Unit 2: Introduction to Profiling
- Key historical events
- Crime scene analysis
- Victim of internet dating scam
- Myra Hindley case study
Unit 3: Personality Typologies [Jung; Colours; Big 5; Stress]
- Personality theories
- Personality theories
- Personality tests
Unit 4: Criminal Profiling
- Organised and disorganised crime scene
- Typology
- Investigative
- Geographical approaches
- Psychopath,
- Sociopath
- Narcissic personality
- Hunting strategies
- Victim attack methods
Unit 5: Profiling Rapists
- Different theories of rape
- Typologies and theories of rape
- Organised and disorganised points of view
Unit 6: Profiling school shooters
- Risk factors
- Langman’s typologies
- Analyse
Criminal Psychology
Level 3:
Unit 1: Biological and Evolutionary Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- Historical explanations
- Genetic explanations
- Biochemical explanations
- Neurological explanations
- Personality theories
Unit 2: Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- Social learning theory
- Media and crime
- Psychodynamic theory
Unit 3: Criminological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
- Vulnerabilities towards crime
- Sub-cultural theories
- Strain theory
- Status Frustration
- Differential Association
- Environmental Theory
- Social Bond Theory
- Risk Factors
- Relative Deprivation
Unit 4: Abnormal Behaviour and Psychopathy
- Diagnosing abnormal behaviour
- Cognitive approaches
- Beck's Negative Triad
- Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Behavioural Theory
- Cognitive Theory
- Life Events
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
Unit 5: Research and the Criminal Justice System (CJS)
- Eyewitness testimony
- Leading question
- Anxiety and weapon effect
- Cognitive interview
- Detecting deception
- Juries and sentencing
Unit 6: Children who kill
- Mary Bell
- Thompson and Venables
- Kip Kinkel
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