Diploma in Criminology & Criminal Psychology

Course Titles

• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology.
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Forensic).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Police).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Prisons).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Corporate Fraud).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Medical).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Crime Scene Investigation).
• Diploma in Criminology and Criminal Psychology (Terrorism).

Students in the above Diplomas attend the same class and lectures. However on completion of the course, students may submit a chosen assignment in any one of the above areas in order to be awarded that particular exit award title.

Outline

• Week 1 – Introduction: nature or nurture? Measuring crime separating fact from fiction.
• Week 2 – Social, Family & Environmental Theories of Crime if only my parents cared.
• Week 3 – Biological traits, personal attributes and the mentally disordered mind.
• Week 4 – Psychopathy 1 The Hare Test & the criminal psychopath
• Week 5 – Psychopathy 2 The psychopaths among us; bad men in good jobs.
• Week 6 – Serial Killers strangers in the night?
• Week 7 – Aggression, violence and stalking.
• Week 8 – Sexual Deviation & Sex Offenders inside the mind of the sex abuser.
• Week 9 – Prison hierarchy and sociology the inmate code.
• Week 10 – Offender Profiling & Police Interrogation Techniques.

This event has been approved for CPD credits for members of the Psychology Society of Ireland.