This BPS accredited course covers the relationship between psychology and the criminal justice system, exploring police investigation, false confessions, expert witnesses, jury behaviour and treatment of complex offenders and gives you the chance to work on research projects such as offender profiling and crime analysis, criminal thinking styles and lie detection.

Choose Psychology and Criminal Behaviour BSc (Hons) degree at Bedfordshire and:

• BPS accredited Learn about individual differences, psychological theories of criminal behaviour, the criminal justice system, assessment and treatment of offenders, social and developmental theories of criminal behaviour

• Study psychology within the larger context of law and economics with lecturers who are active practitioners or researchers in the field

• Develop your ability to apply psychological and criminological theory and research methods to the understanding of criminality, its consequences, investigation, management, treatment and prevention

• Gain a thorough understanding of the workings of the criminal justice system and the responses to behaviour labelled as criminal

• Benefit from a degree accredited by the British Psychological Society