PSAD 301 Criminology and Forensic Psychology
This course examines the underlying structure of crime-related constructs, offers a view of crime from the offender's perspective through real-life examples, and explores evidence-based interventions. This course helps students break away from the common view that offenders are best understood as types or categories. In place of typologies, this course introduces the notion of correlated dimensions that help the student understand how criminal behavior develops, operates, and, in many cases, eventually stops. Viewing crime from the offender's perspective through clinical case studies helps students gain an appreciation and understanding of the nature of crime. This understanding improves the student's ability to develop interventions and effective crime prevention strategies. Prerequisites: PSAD 102, Enforcement and Corrections; PSYC 200, Introduction to Psychology, or PSYC 150, General Psychology; WRIT 113, First-Year Academic Writing