This area of applied psychology has developed rapidly in recent years.
Psychological issues arise in a wide range of forensic and legal contexts.
The Course This is designed to cover the application of psychology to problems that arise in forensic and legal settings. As well as psychologists, current students on the course include police officers, probation officers, lawyers, staff working in forensic psychiatric settings and prisons. The full course for the M.Sc. takes two years and consists of five study modules and a dissertation. The Diploma is based on the five study modules but without the dissertation. Psychology, the Legal System and Criminology 2.