
Explore the four main types of serial killers—visionary, mission-oriented, hedonistic, and power-control—along with subcategories like lust, thrill, and comfort, and examine their motivations, behaviors, and patterns in criminal psychology.
Police must gather strong, unshakable evidence within 24 hours of arrest, weighing bail versus custody, before the Crown Prosecution Service decides if the case goes to court.
Explore how social and environmental contexts, from poverty and inequality to violent home life and head injuries, interact with individual predispositions to influence criminal behavior.
Explore how lie detection uses polygraphs and questioning methods to assess deception through autonomic responses, including irrelevant, comparison, and relevant questions, plus control and guilty knowledge tests.
Explore Eysenck's theory of criminal personality, linking neuroticism, psychoticism, and extraversion to conditioning and socialization processes that shape antisocial behavior.
Examine antisocial personality disorder, or sociopathy, a lifelong mental disorder marked by disregard for others, manipulation, lying, impulsivity, and frequent law violations with conduct disorder origins.
Explore how schizophrenia influences crime risk through cognitive impairment and delusional or hallucinatory symptoms, emphasizing early detection and social context to reduce violence.
In this course, we will be looking at a number of various theories that closely explain the links between criminal offence and a large number of different personality disorders. More precisely, in the course Criminal Psychology: The Complete Course we will be studying about Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia as well as many other types of disorders that are probable to be linked to the crime. After taking this course you will understand a great number of the most important psychological theories of criminal behavior. Also, after taking this course you will learn a lot about different mental health issues which arise in many registrated offenders. You will also understand the strong link between various Personality Disorders and the act of Criminal Offence. There are several different definitions that are used for criminal behaviour, including behaviour punishable by public law, behaviour considered immoral, behavior that is violating existing social norms or traditions, or acts that might be causing severe psychological harm. Criminal behaviour is often considered antisocial in nature. They also help with crime prevention and study the different types of programs that are effective or not effective. Criminal psychology started in the late 18th century. There were four key aspects of the development of criminal psychology: philosophical, medical, legal and biological