Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
15.01.24 | INTRODUCTION TO COURSE | Hugo S. Gomes, Ângela Maia & David P. Farrington. Measuring Bias in self-reports of offending: systematic review of experiments. Journal of experimental Criminology(2019)
.R. Bartol/A.M.Bartol Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach.Chapters 1 and 2
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17.01.24 | VICTIMS& VICTIMISATION | Walsh/Jorgensen, Criminology, Sage Publications Chapter 2 | | |
22.01.24 | VICTIMOLOGY AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS | Walsh/Jorgensen, Criminology, Sage Publications Chapter 3 | | |
24.01.24 | VICTIMOLOGY WITHIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS | Kunst, M., Popelier, L., & Varekamp, E. (2015). Victim Satisfaction With the Criminal Justice System and Emotional Recovery: A Systematic and Critical Review of the Literature. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 16(3), 336–358. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838014555034 | | |
29.01.24 | THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT | Jeremy Coid, Rafael A. González, Constantinos Kallis, Yamin Zhang, YuanYuan Liu, Jane Wood, Zara Quigg and Simone Ullrich. Gang membership and sexual violence: associations with childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2020) 217, 583–590. | | |
31.01.24 | THE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES OF CRIME | Paternoster, Brame et al. Multiple Routes to Delinquency? A test of Developmental and General
Theories of Crime. Criminology 1997. vol 35, issue 1. p.49-84.
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05.02.24 | BIOSOCIAL APPROACHES TO CRIME | C.R. Bartol/A.M.Bartol (2014) Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach.10th Edition; Chapt. 7
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07.02.24 | REVIEW OF THEORIES | Babette C.M.van Hazebroek HildeWermink et al. Biosocial studies of antisocial behavior: A systematic review of interactions between peri/prenatal complications, psychophysiological parameters, and social risk factors. Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume 47, July–August 2019, Pages 169-188
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12.02.24 | CRIMES SCENES | Burgess/Ressler et al. (2013) Crime Classification Manual; Wiley (May 2013) 3rd Edition; pp. 11-37
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14.02.24 | THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT WITHIN FORENSICS | C.R. Bartol/A.M.Bartol (2014) Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach.10th Edition; Chapt. 8 | | |
19.02.24 | MID TERM EXAM | | | 19.02.24 |
21.02.24 | Case Presentations | | Case Presentations | |
04.03.23 | HUMAN AGGRESSION, VIOLENCE & MASS SHOOTINGS | Allely, C.SMinnis, Thompson,P Wilson & C Gillberg, (2014). Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(3), pp. 288-301.
Lankford, Silver et al An Epidemiological Analysis of Public Mass Shooters and Active Shooters: Quantifying Key Differences Between Perpetrators and the General Population, Homicide Offenders, and People Who Die by Suicide. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. (2021 )Vol. 8, No. 4, 125–1
R. Bartol/A.M.Bartol Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach.Chapter 10
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06.03.24 | HOMICIDE | Lankford, Silver et al An Epidemiological Analysis of Public Mass Shooters and Active Shooters: Quantifying Key Differences Between Perpetrators and the General Population, Homicide Offenders, and People Who Die by Suicide. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. (2021 )Vol. 8, No. 4, 125–1
13. Elgar FJ, et al. Corporal punishment bans and physical fighting in adolescents: an ecological study of 88 countries British Medical Journal (October 2018).
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11.03.24 | SERIAL KILLERS CLASSIFICATIONS | Miller,L.(2014). Serial killers: I. subtypes, patterns, and motives. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(1), pp.1-11. Miller, L. (2014). Serial killers: II. development, dynamics, and forensics. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(1), pp. 12-22 | | |
13.03.24 | WHITE COLLAR CRIME | Clarkson R, Darjee R. White-collar crime: a neglected area in forensic psychiatry? Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2022 Feb 3;29(6):926-952. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2021.1995522. PMID: 36267602; PMCID: PMC9578465 | | |
18.03.24 | CYBERCRIME | M.G. García 1, M.D. P ́erez-Ca ́rceles 1, E. Osuna, I. Legaz. Drug-facilitated sexual assault and other crimes: A systematic review by countries. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 79 (2021) 102151
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20.03.24 | CLIMATE CHANGE AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR | bert Agnew Dire forecast: A theoretical model of the impact of climate change on crime Theoretical Criminology 16(1) 21–42. | | |
25.03.24 | SEXUAL ASSAULT &GENDER BASED VIOLENCE | Charlie Brooker , Emma Durmaz Mental health, sexual violence and the work of Sexual Assault Referral centres (SARCs) in England Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 31 (2015)
Aguirre NG, Milewski AR, Shin J, Ottenheimer D. Gender-based violence experienced by women seeking asylum in the United State: A lifetime of multiple traumas inflicted by multiple perpetrators. J Forensic Leg Med. 2020 May;72:101959. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2020.101959. Epub 2020 Apr 20. PMID: 32452449.
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27.03.24 | POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER | Edgar Jones, Robert Hodguns Vermaas et al. Flashbacks and post-traumatic stress disorder: the genesis of a 20th-century diagnosis. British Journal of Psychiatry | | |
01.04.24 | DRUG MISUSE: WHO WHY AND PREVENTION | Bruce J.Rounsaville et al Pathways to Opiate Addiction: An Evaluation of Differing Antecedents British Journal of Psychiatry. (1982), 141. | | |
03.04.24 | CRIMINAL CONSIDERATIONS OF DRUG MISUSE | Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes and Alex Stevens.What can we learn from the Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs? British Journal of Criminology. 50, 999–1022 publication 21 July 2010 | | |
08.04.24 | CRIMINAL PROFILING; INTERNATIONAL VARIATIONS | Canter Offender Profiling and Investigative Journal of Psychology. Vol 1 Issue 1.
Torres, A. N., Boccaccini, M. T., & Miller, H. A. (2015). Perceptions of the validity and utility of criminal profiling among forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 37(1), 51–58.
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10.04.24 | | | CRIMINAL PROFILING EXERCISE | |
15.04.24 | FORENSIC RISK ASSESSEMENT | Risk assessment and shared care planning in out-patient forensic psychiatry: cluster randomised controlled trial
Troquete, Nadine A, C; van den Brink Rob H S; Beintema Harry; Mulder, Tamara; van Os Titus W D P; et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry; London Vol. 202, Iss. 5, (May 2013): 365-371.DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.112.113043
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17.;04.24 | PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS IN THE CUSTODIAL SYSTEM | Byng, R., Kirkpatrick, T., Lennox, C., Warren, F., Anderson, R., Brand, S., . . . Shaw, J. (2023). Evaluation of a complex intervention for prisoners with common mental health problems, near to and after release: The Engager randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 222(1), 18-26. doi:10.1192/bjp.2022.93
Coid, J., Hickey, N., Kahtan, N., Zhang, T., & Yang, M. (2007). Patients discharged from medium secure forensic psychiatry services: Reconvictions and risk factors. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(3), 223-229. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.105.018788
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22.04.24 | Review , Questions and Revision | | In Class Quiz | |
24.04.24 | Exam | | | 22.04.24 |