Course Summary
This course will cover a range of issues relating to forensic psychology. You will consider a variety of aspects of relationships between psychology and law. In psychology of law enforcement, you will consider psychological profiling and police interview techniques. The psychology of the legal system includes topics on mental impairment, expert and eyewitness testimony, jury dynamics, and victims of crime. You will also review the psychology of offenders in the course topics. The psychology of corrections will be discussed with psychological interventions for offenders in conjunction with contemporary justice and jurisprudence perspectives.