This subject is designed to introduce students to a range of approaches in the study of crime and criminality that are informed by the Behavioural Sciences and that are relevant to a student's role as an investigator. The subject will review models drawn from Psychology and Criminology and demonstrate some of the ways in which this knowledge can be applied to the investigative process and what implications their use might have for the investigation. The subject will review the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches in an attempt to allow students to identify best practice in their respective roles.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2020.
HD/FL
One session
Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
1) What is crime and how can we explain it? - What is crime and how much of it is there? Problems with definition and the accuracy of crime figures - Implications for Policing and Policy - Psychological Explanations of Crime including Learning Theory and Crime Personality and Crime, Cognition and Crime, Social Factors in Crime and Psychopathy and offending 2) Violence and Sexual Violence - Interpersonal Violence. Defining violence Cognitive-Behavioural Theory and Violence Social Factors implicated in Violence Personality and Violence and Biological explanations of Violence - Sex Crimes - Development of sexuality Paraphilic sexuality Cognition and sex offending. The extent of sexual offending, child sexual abuse, social factors and rape typologies of sex offenders, psychological theories of sex offending,ethical issues in sex research 3) Risk assessment - Investigative Methods - Offender profiling - Psychology and police interviewing, psychology of confession and false confessions, suggestibility - What is truth, evaluating truthfulness from behaviour, the polygraph statement analysis - The use of Experts by Police and Ethical issues
The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: October 2020. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.