Forensic and Legal Psychology in a Nutshell
Full course description
This course will provide psychology (but also law and criminology) students with a brief introduction to topics typical of the Forensic and Legal Psychology field.
Forensic psychology is the application of clinical specialties to the legal arena and people who encounter the law. Think about assessment, treatment, and evaluation of these people. Legal psychology deals with investigating human functioning related to the legal system and focuses on functions such as perception, memory, and decision-making.
During each tutorial, research articles and case material descriptions related to a specific theme will be studied and discussed.
The final assessment for this course is a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.
Course objectives
At the end of this course students:
- are able to understand and explain the terminology of forensic and legal psychology;
- have a general understanding of forensic and legal psychological topics;
- can contrast and criticize current issues and controversies in forensic and legal psychological research;
- are able to understand, explain and criticize methods and the experimental work done in this discipline;
- develop and improve their ability to examine the relation between the discussed topics, and articulate how ideas connect to, or contrast with one another.