Professional Criminology Diploma Course

Name: Professional Criminology Diploma Course
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Become a True Expert In Criminology And Criminal Psychology

Created byNeven Coaching Academy

Last updated 7/2025

English

What you'll learn

You will learn about the backgrounds of criminal behavior
Gain a deep understanding of the psychology behind mass murderers and spree killers
You will transform the way in which you understand why people commit crime
You will get a deep insight into the criminology
The evolution of criminology

Course content

2 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 19m total length

Introduction3:26

History of Criminology5:21
Track criminology's evolution from 18th century Europe through the classic and determinist debates to the Chicago school's sociological approach, detailing instrumental and expressive motives and how they shape punishment.
What is Criminology3:26
Criminology studies the non-legal aspects of crime and delinquency, including its causes, correction and prevention, from viewpoints across psychology, biology, economics, sociology, psychiatry, and statistics.
Biological Criminology6:27
Examines Lombroso's biological criminology, linking atavism and stigmata to a criminal type within a Darwinian framework, while noting racial hierarchies and Ferri's view that biological causes interact with social factors.
Chicago School Criminology7:28
Class Concept in Criminology3:06
Link class structures to crime and social stratification, noting that offending concentrates among lower classes, and discuss life chances, social exclusion, and debates on state bias and policing.
Community Crime Prevention3:09
Corporate Crime5:09
Drug Crime5:18
Family Crime3:01
Cyber Crime4:04
Hate Crime4:52
Examine how hate crime poses a serious criminal justice issue motivated by prejudice against race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, and how prosecutions hinge on perceived motivation.
Crime Definition1:04
Criminal Profiling3:39
Apply criminal profiling to predict offender characteristics using four approaches—geographical, investigative psychology, topological, and clinical—assisting investigations and crime reconstruction.
Crime Mapping1:40
Penology2:47
Types of Criminals4:04
Explanation of Criminal Behavior7:06
The Major Perspectives on the Causes of Criminal Behavior2:49
Explore major perspectives on the causes of criminal behavior by examining risk and protective factors across biology, psychology, and family history, with childhood patterns shaping future criminal activity.
Delinqueent Careers And Developmental Criminology3:30
Why Some People Become Criminals3:26
Narcissistic Personality Disorder And Crime4:45
Biological/Physiological Theories and Criminality1:47
Explore how inherited traits, brain development, nutrition, hormones, and genes influence criminal behavior, under biological and physiological theories of crime, including racial and gender differences.
Offender Profiling6:32
Case Linkage3:57
Deviance4:55
The Four Types of Serial Killers15:37
Behaviorism2:06
Humanistic Approach5:13
The humanistic approach views behavior from a subjective perspective, emphasizes free will and improving psychological health toward fully functioning individuals. Criminal psychology blends psychology and law to understand criminal behavior.
The Eight Criminal Risk Factors4:01
Eysenck's Theory of Criminal Personality4:16
Eysenck’s theory links criminal behavior to a personality model—neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism—rooted in nervous-system functioning and socialization through conditioning, with neuroticism and extraversion making conditioning difficult and psychoticism predicting aggression.
Cultural Transmission1:27

Requirements

No requirements or prerequisities

Description

In this course, we will be looking at a number of various theories that closely explain the links between criminology, criminal offence and a large number of different personality disorders. The field of criminology involves a wide-ranging number of different viewpoints, and their proponents will often have a quite long and intense disagreements about exactly what the task of criminology is. The term criminology was most likely coined in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as Criminologia. In this 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 criminology as well as 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.

Who this course is for:

People interested in gaining an insight into understanding human behaviour and why people think and act the way they do.

Professional Criminology Diploma Course

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Criminology Overview31 lectures • 2hr 16min

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Description

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