THE CRIMINAL MIND: FORENSIC AND PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PSYCH 401 , 403 , 405 , or 456 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically review and analyze research in the field of forensic psychology. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Review personality and crime with an emphasis on psychopathy assessment, case examples, causal theories, and neurobiological factors Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine the connection between mental illness and crime with an emphasis on Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Disease or Defect and Competency to Proceed psychological evaluations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Consider general theories of causes of crime Audience: Undergraduate 5. Characterize typologies of people who have committed sexual offenses, causes of sexual offenses, and risk assessment and typologies of people who have committed violent offenses, with a focus on domestic Audience: Undergraduate 6. Analyze social psychological influences on crime and criminal justice system Audience: Undergraduate 7. Critique treatment and intervention approaches, with emphasis on what works and why. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically review and analyze research in the field of forensic psychology. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Review personality and crime with an emphasis on psychopathy assessment, case examples, causal theories, and neurobiological factors Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine the connection between mental illness and crime with an emphasis on Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Disease or Defect and Competency to Proceed psychological evaluations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Consider general theories of causes of crime Audience: Undergraduate 5. Characterize typologies of people who have committed sexual offenses, causes of sexual offenses, and risk assessment and typologies of people who have committed violent offenses, with a focus on domestic Audience: Undergraduate 6. Analyze social psychological influences on crime and criminal justice system Audience: Undergraduate 7. Critique treatment and intervention approaches, with emphasis on what works and why. Audience: Undergraduate