Criminal Psychology

1.Basic Course Information

Course Code: 070572
Course Name：Criminal Psychology
Course Type: Optional Course for Law Majors, Required Course for Security Majors
Credit: 2
Target Students: Law Majors and Security Majors
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Course: Psychology

2.Brief Course Introduction

Criminal Psychology is a subject that studies the psychological basis of a criminal, which influences and dominates the formation, development, changing regularity of the criminal’s psychology and the crime countermeasure of public security and judicial organs. From the perspective of psychology, it studies the cause, process and rules of forming crime psychology and committing crimes, thereby providing a scientific basis and method for the exposition, punishment, prevention and correction of crimes.