1. A2 Unit 3 Options in Applied Psychology Forensic Psychology
What are you going to learn?
September - January

2. Turning to Crime Why do people turn to crime?
Family, biology, (cognition) learning, etc.

3. Making a Case How Psychology is used within the investigative process.
Methods of interviewing witnesses and suspects.
Factors influencing witnesses.
Detecting lies.
Creating an offender profile.

4. Reaching a verdict
How Psychology can inform behaviour in the courtroom.
Persuading a jury
Witness appeal
Reaching a verdict

5. After a guilty verdict How Psychology can inform the penal system.
Research into the effects of imprisonment.
Alternatives to imprisonment.
Treatment programmes for offenders.

6. Where do Forensic Psychologists work?
Prison Service
Psychometric assessments, administering treatment programmes and research.
Providing evidence at trial
Work with offenders and inform parole boards.

7. Where do Forensic Psychologists work?
Clinical setting - hospitals
Risk assessment
Treatment programmes
Working with the mentally ill, those with borderline personality disorders and substance abuse.

8. Where do Forensic Psychologists work?
Research
Police Force
Probation Service
Crime Analysts (data analysis using computers)
Profiler (minor role alongside other work)

9. Where do we begin? We will consider the following areas:
Why do people turn to crime?
Does crime run in families?
Does poverty lead to crime?
How do nature and nurture interact to cause criminal behaviour?
Is there a biological cause for criminal behaviour?
Do criminals have different thought processes?