Today’s deal is such a steal it should be criminal...
We're offering you an online criminal psychologist or forensic psychology course for €19, or take both online courses for just €29. Alternatively, enjoy a classroom-based criminal and forensic psychologist course for just €599, saving you up to 92% off Vita Online's prices (converted using xe.com; correct as of 20.3.2017).
You might be an armchair criminal expert, working out the motives of the killers in Murder She Wrote before even Jessica Fletcher herself. Or perhaps you’ve always had a passion for forensics and believe that your life should be a lot more like CSI. Today’s deal is the perfect chance for you to take these passions and build the necessary skills and qualifications to pursue a career in either criminal or forensic psychology. Just choose either an online or Dublin-based classroom course and delve in to the intriguing modules below...
Criminal Psychologist Modules
- Social Forensic Psychology
- Defining criminal psychology
- Scope of criminal psychology
- Roles of the criminal psychologist
- The scientific method of psychological research
- Ethical considerations of psychological research
- Social learning theory Media and crime Psychodynamic theory
- Focus of the research
- The hypothesis
- Data collection methods
- Analysing the data
- Reaching conclusions
- Reporting the results
- The usefulness of psychological research
- Factors that influence the incidence of criminal activity
- The major perspectives that try to explain causes of criminal behaviour: – Biological/physiological theories
- Cognitions theories
- Behavioural theories
- Developmental theories
- Investigating a crime
Forensic Psychology 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)