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  2. Criminal psychology - Wikipedia

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    Criminal psychology, also referred to as criminological psychology, is the study of the views, thoughts, intentions, actions and reactions of criminals and suspects. [1][2] It is a subfield of criminology and applied psychology. Criminal psychologists have many roles within legal courts, including being called upon as expert witnesses and ...

  3. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Specialty. Clinical psychology, psychiatry. Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). [1] Individuals affected by this kind of anxiety experience challenges and adversities in many aspects of their lives. [2] Death anxiety is different from necrophobia, which refers to an ...

  4. Investigative psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology. In applied psychology, investigative psychology attempts to describe the actions of offenders and develop an understanding of crime. [1] This understanding can then help solve crimes and contribute to prosecution and defense procedures. [2][3] It brings together issues in the retrieval of investigative information, the drawing of ...

  5. Psychoanalytic criminology - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic criminology. Psychoanalytic criminology is a method of studying crime and criminal behaviour that draws from Freudian psychoanalysis. This school of thought examines personality and the psyche (particularly the unconscious) for motive in crime. [ 1 ] Other areas of interest are the fear of crime and the act of punishment.

  6. Forensic psychology - Wikipedia

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    There are 67 forensic psychology degree programs offered in the US. Average tuition cost for an undergraduate is $7,687 in-state and $26,401 out-of-state. For a graduate, the average tuition cost is $11,167 in-state and $20,272 out-of-state.

  7. Fear of crime - Wikipedia

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    Since the late 1960s, the study of fear of crime had grown considerably. [2]In addition to rises in crime rates and experience, David Garland also notes the significance of high-visibility events in the 1960s US and 1980s UK as well as the drug-related crimes of the 1980s committed by people who were "often portrayed as desperate, driven and capable of mindless violence."

  8. Breaking point (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Getting someone to confess to a crime during an interrogation – whether innocent or guilty – means the suspect has been broken. The key to breaking points in interrogation has been linked to changes in the victim's concept of self [3] – changes which may be precipitated by a sense of helplessness, [4] by lack of preparedness or an underlying sense of guilt, [5] as well (paradoxically) as ...

  9. Victimology - Wikipedia

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    In criminology and criminal law, a victim of a crime is an identifiable person who has been harmed individually and directly by the perpetrator, rather than by society as a whole. However, this may not always be the case, as with victims of white-collar crime, who may not be clearly identifiable or directly linked to crime against a particular ...