BA (Hons) Criminal Justice And Psychology Bachelor's degree at Edge Hill University

Designed to enhance your learning about the core agencies of the criminal justice system, their role and function, and how they interact with each other to prevent and reduce crime, assess risk, and safeguard and protect (potential) victims of crime. The key bodies and their roles will be examined, and the processes by which they share information and work together to achieve goals will be explored. Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), Multi-Agency Public Protection Assessments (MA

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Explores the key policy, practice and societal drivers which currently direct responses to addictions and offending. The Government strategy, 'Reducing Demand, Restricting Supply, Building Recovery' (Ministry of Justice, 2010), recognises the impact that addictions such as drug and alcohol dependence have on societal harm and crime. The strategy sets out to tackle dependence on all drugs including prescription and over the counter medicines, as well as severe alcohol dependence. The relationship

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Aims to provide you with a contemporary and detailed understanding of the pivotal issues pertaining to the mentally disordered offender (MDO). The module will specifically focus on those individuals detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act (1983) who will be frequently detained under Section 37 MHA (1983), which is a Home Office restriction order.

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Introduces you to the criminal justice system. You will consider the function of the criminal justice system and the police role within it, as well as examining various pieces of associated legislation. You will focus on victims, the victims commissioner, codes of practice, and the role of the family liaison officer. You will also explore the custody process, in particular the detention, custody, charging, disclosure and escorting of detainees. Sentencing, out-of-court disposals and restorative

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Introduces you to the application of psychology to understanding mental health and mental illness in applied settings. You will be provided with an overview of historical and contemporary issues surrounding mental health and the law. You will explore defining and classifying psychological conditions using Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM). You will develop an understanding of the treatment and effective management of psychological conditions, with a particular focus on risk assessment and risk

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Will familiarise you with the approaches and concepts central to the study of behaviour. The module explores the historical and theoretical concepts of personality and individual differences, social cognition and social and cognitive development.

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Provides you with a thorough grounding in understanding and undertaking policing research. It considers the development of policing research and explores different qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The module considers the theoretical context of approaches such as positivism and interpretivism. It also explores the skills necessary to evaluate policing research, particularly in terms of research ethics and politics and the practical skills necessary to undertake the research p

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Develops your employability skills by engaging you in work experience, either with industry (whether legal or non-legal) or with a voluntary organisation. After a few weeks of preparation for your placement, the placement will typically run throughout the second year of the course, commencing in October and running through until the end of April. Following completion of the placement, you will compile a reflective report illustrating the skills and experience demonstrated and acquired. This will

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Provides you with a comprehensive understanding of how psychology can inform and influence various aspects of the legal system. You will learn how psychology can contribute to our understanding of criminal justice processes, criminal investigations, and offending behaviour. You will explore the role of psychology in understanding and addressing legal issues, as well as the ethical implications involved in these applications.

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Explores cyber crime both in theory and practice to analyse the intersection between criminal behaviour and justice processes. Common cyber attacks, offending methodologies, online harms and victimisation will be examined as you develop your understanding of the nature of these crimes and how the cultural worlds of hackers, crackers and trackers work. Cyber criminality, and its impact on society, will also be explored in-depth.

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Has been designed to provide an introduction to probation services and processes within criminal justice. The role, function and purpose of probation in the management of offenders will be explored and a historical and theoretical contextualization of probation as a concept and a criminal justice tool will be provided. The module will also explore aspects of probation work and will include tasters on commonly studied topics in this field. It will also consider contemporary challenges faced withi

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Recognises that there is much debate focused around the concepts of punishment and treatment in the UK and the wider world. The module will equip you with a detailed understanding of the key theoretical and practical arguments in the contemporary fields of criminal justice and health and social care. You will explore a variety of treatment options which are available to offenders across the criminal justice and health and social care services. You will assess their effectiveness and consider how

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Studies the human nervous system, including its structure and functioning. There will be a particular focus upon the brain. You will learn in detail the processes by which messages are passed through the system and the way the brain interacts with the hormones of the endocrine system in order to preserve life. The methods by which the brain is commonly researched will also be explored in order to provide a basis for understanding much current research and theorising in psychology.

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Addresses the processes involved in key aspects of human development and their relevant applications in real world settings. It will focus mainly (though not exclusively) on development in childhood including areas such as cognition, memory, language, emotional, and social development. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of key theories and psychological research that have informed our understanding of development in these areas.

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Reveals the extent to which social influences and interactions are pervasive in affecting individual behaviour, while also considering how the actions of an individual in turn affect other individuals and groups. You will develop an awareness of the relationship between person and situation and examine how this dynamic relationship both influences, and is crucial to, the understanding of behaviour.

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Will examine both classic and contemporary research that has led to the development of theories regarding how attention, perception and memory all function. The module will also examine how each of these components interact during everyday tasks. You will consider how thinking, language and emotion enable us to reason about, and interact meaningfully with, the external world, gaining an understanding of the processes used to communicate, comprehend, and use information and knowledge.

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Explores the concept of violence and the various forms it can take. Specifically, the module will focus on the relationships between gender, sex, sexuality and violence, and the ideological, cultural and religious underpinnings of such violent acts. You will be encouraged to look beyond established understandings of what constitutes a violent act to explore more abstract forms of violence such as harm, denial of rights, and poverty. Criminological and social science theory will form the basis of

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