PSYC425

Prerequisite: PSYC100, PSYC200, and PSYC300. Restriction: Must be in Psychology program. Credit only granted for: PSYC325, or PSYC425. An introduction to the intersection of psychology and the criminal justice system, known as the field of legal psychology. The material covered will span the course of the criminal justice process and examine each aspect from a psychological perspective beginning with profiling and moving on to eyewitness memory and judgements through perpetrator memories and interrogation techniques. These aspects will be evaluated with a research lens as well as an applied outlook.