Forensic Psychology Subject regulations
Forensic Psychology links psychology to both criminal behaviour and its reduction and prevention, and to the functions of the legal and correctional systems. This subject will also give students an opportunity to align the strong empirical and theoretical traditions from western psychology to Māori-led approaches to understanding and reducing recidivism, and the overrepresentation of Māori in the criminal justice system.
Forensic Psychology is available as a minor.
To complete a minor in Forensic Psychology, students must complete 60 points, including FPSYC101, FPSYC201, FPSYC301 and 15 points the other papers listed for Forensic Psychology.
Forensic Psychology will be introduced as a minor in 2022.
Forensic Psychology papers
| Code and paper title | Points | |
|---|---|---|
CRSCI101
Crime Science and Prevention
This paper introduces the topics, theories, and approaches that make up Crime Science. The central focus is on understanding crime. |
15 | 25B (Hamilton) & 25B (Online) & 25B (Secondary School - Unistart) |
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FPSYC101
Forensic and Criminological Psychology
This paper introduces students to forensic psychology and encompasses a wide range of topics derived from the intersection of psychology with the... |
15 | 25A (Hamilton) & 25A (Online) & 25A (Secondary School - Unistart) |
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PSYCH100
Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
This paper introduces perceptual systems, mechanisms of learning, emotions and motivation, the biological basis of psychology, such as brain... |
15 | 25A (Hamilton) & 25A (Tauranga) |
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PSYCH101
Social Psychology, Health and Well-being
This paper will introduce major issues in psychology particularly as they relate to health, wellbeing, mental illness, forensic psychology, lifespan... |
15 | 25B (Hamilton) & 25B (Tauranga) |
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SOCIO102
The Sociology of Crime, Deviance and Social Justice
This paper provides students with an introduction to criminology and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the New Zealand context. |
15 | 25A (Hamilton) & 25A (Tauranga) |
| Code and paper title | Points | |
|---|---|---|
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CRSCI201
Crime Patterns and Analysis
The focus of this paper is on crime as a potentially preventable event. Crimes occur in a patterned way that is partly determined by situational... |
15 | 25A (Hamilton) & 25A (Online) |
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FPSYC201
Psychological Criminology
Crime is a result of how people think, feel, and behave within their ecological context, making psychology one of the core disciplines in... |
15 | 25B (Hamilton) & 25B (Online) |
| Code and paper title | Points | |
|---|---|---|
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FPSYC301
Correctional Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice
This paper examines the application of psychological theory, research and practice to the operation of correctional systems and their various roles... |
15 | 25B (Online) |
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PSYCH322
Memory and Cognition
Research, theories and principles in memory and cognition, with an emphasis on the applications to real-world problems, such as the overlap of... |
15 | 25A (Hamilton) |
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CRSCI101 Crime Science and Prevention
This paper introduces the topics, theories, and approaches that make up Crime Science. The central focus is on understanding crime.
Points 15This paper introduces students to forensic psychology and encompasses a wide range of topics derived from the intersection of psychology with the...
Points 15This paper introduces perceptual systems, mechanisms of learning, emotions and motivation, the biological basis of psychology, such as brain...
Points 15This paper will introduce major issues in psychology particularly as they relate to health, wellbeing, mental illness, forensic psychology, lifespan...
Points 15This paper provides students with an introduction to criminology and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the New Zealand context.
Points 15 -
CRSCI201 Crime Patterns and Analysis
The focus of this paper is on crime as a potentially preventable event. Crimes occur in a patterned way that is partly determined by situational...
Points 15Crime is a result of how people think, feel, and behave within their ecological context, making psychology one of the core disciplines in...
Points 15 -
FPSYC301 Correctional Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice
This paper examines the application of psychological theory, research and practice to the operation of correctional systems and their various roles...
Points 15Research, theories and principles in memory and cognition, with an emphasis on the applications to real-world problems, such as the overlap of...
Points 15
2025 Catalogue of Papers information current as of 15 Nov 2024 01:00am