Unit: Introduction to Forensic Psychology (8831)
| Level: 2 | Credit Points: 3 | Contribution Band: 1 |
Availability in 2012: (Also available in: 2013)
- S1 (BRUCE, STD-F2FO) - Convener: Aprf Stephen Moston (Ph: +61 2 6201 5288)
Class Contact
3 hours: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial.Prerequisite
4309 Psychology 101 OR 4310 Psychology 102 OR by permission of the unit convener.Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:1. demonstrate an understanding of criminal offending and an understanding of the role of a forensic psychologist in relation to the investigation of crime and the assessment and treatment of offenders;
2. to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and develop evidence clearly and logically;
3. to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends.
Syllabus
Introduction to forensic psychology:Eyewitness memory
Suggestibility
Offender profiling
Insanity, competence, and malingering
Expert testimony in the courtroom
Police Interrogation techniques
Prejudice, discrimination and hate crimes
Sexual harassment
Crime in sport
Terrorism
Miscarriages of justice.
Referenced Unit Sets
Unit Level Key:
- 1 - Offered in first year of course curriculum
- 2 - Offered in second year of course curriculum
- 3 - Offered in third year of course curriculum
- 4 - Offered in fourth year of course curriculum
- 5 - Offered in fifth year of course curriculum
- G - Offered in graduate course curriculums
- PG - Offered in postgraduate course curriculums
- R - Offered in research course curriculums
- H - Offered in honours course curriculums
