Description
This course provides students with a unique orientation to the study of criminals and criminal behavior, which shares some affinity with the fields of deviance, abnormal psychology, criminology, forensic psychology, and victimology. This class will explore biological, developmental, learned, situational, and social-psychological theories of crime and criminals. Students will study the correlation between human aggression and crime and/or mental illness and crime. Students will also be exposed to some of the principles and methods used in the profiling of criminals and various crimes, including juvenile delinquency, family violence, school violence, work violence, homicide, murder, group-oriented criminal conducts, such as terrorism and cult violence, sexual assault of adults and children, property crime, and economic crimes.
Prerequisite: PY 150 and three additional hours of psychology
Offered: Fall