This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of offending behavior, particularly the key role played in lawbreaking by mental illness, personality disorder, and cognitive impairment.
Special attention is paid to sexual offending and personality disorders like psychopathy.
Key legal issues are also explored, including fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility. The programme consists of six modules, all of which which must be successfully completed to attain the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Criminology. To achieve your MSc degree, you must also pass the dissertation. Course modules Understanding Crime Focuses on the problems of explaining, measuring and preventing crime. It also considers the effects of crime, fear of crime, media reporting, corporate crime and police responses.