Introducing Investigative Psychology: From Offender Profiling to the Science of IP (Distance Learning) - HMY4014

Assessment 1: Quizzes / polls

Formative assessment in the form of weekly online multiple-choice quizzes will be set by the module leader, detailed in writing in the module handbook, and on the VLE.

Multiple-choice questions

Assessment 2: Written practice exercise

Formative assessment in the form of short written response questions will be set by the module leader, detailed in writing in the module handbook, and on the VLE.

Written practice exercise

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

<p>Investigative psychology is concerned with the psychological input to a range of issues related to the management, investigation and prosecution of crime. You will be introduced to the scope of investigative psychology and the principles on which it is based. The module explores the contributions that psychologists can make to police investigations, the emergence of investigative psychology from offender profiling, processes of detection, the significance of inference and the main questions investigative psychologists ask.</p>

School of Human and Health Sciences

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HMY4014 - Introducing Investigative Psychology: From Offender Profiling to the Science of IP (Distance Learning)

Introducing Investigative Psychology: From Offender Profiling to the Science of IP (Distance Learning)

Critically explicate and evaluate the main principles upon which Investigative Psychology is based.

Address complex issues systematically and make informed judgements about published materials through critical evaluation.

Critically explicate and evaluate the contribution that psychologists have made to the management, investigation, and prosecution of crime, throughout history.

Comprehensively explicate the key stages in the emergence of Investigative Psychology as a discipline in its own right.