This Group is full again!
If you are interested in joining our waiting list please click on the links above to contact Carole or Tricia & we will let you know if & when spaces become available.

Please bear in mind that Psychology, Criminology & Forensics is a Study Group following a course & if you do join we won't be able to go over what you have missed.

Dates For Your Diary

Dates 2026	Topic We spend as long as it takes on each Topic. so the dates when we will be discussing a particular Topic are approximate
April 15th	Miscarriages of Justice
May 20th	Miscarriages of Justice
June 17th	'Normal' & Deviant Psychology
July 15th
August	No Meeting In August
September 16th
October 21st
November 18th
December	No Meeting In December

As we are covering all three disciplines together, we are not looking at topics in the order shown.  

For example, when looking at Psychopathy we would look at what psychopathy is, how it affects people’s behaviour, including criminals; psychological tests & experiments; plus case studies which may include forensic evidence; police procedures & the criminal justice system.

When looking at fingerprints we looked at the history of using fingerprints for identification; why they are unique; methods used to collect & identify them & case studies where they have been vital in identifying the perpetrator.

TOPIC LIST in no particular order.

A name next to the Topic means that person has volunteered to research & present the Topic.

A date after the name is when the Topic was or will be presented.

Please let us know if you are able to research & present any Topics whether or not they are on the Topic List.

We will also, of course, include any Topic suggestions that Group members may have. Just let us know.

Psychology	Criminology	Forensics
History of Psychology - Tricia 17/5/23	History of Criminology - Tricia 17/5/23	History of Forensics - Tricia 17/5/23
What is Psychology? - Tricia 17/5/23	What is Criminology? - Tricia 17/5/23	What is Forensics? - Tricia 17/5/23
Psychological Experiments - Tricia	How Laws are Made & Enforced Tricia	Types of Forensic Evidence – fingerprints, DNA, fibres, pollen, CCTV, ballistics, audiology etc. - Tricia 18/10/23, 17/1/24, 20/2/24 to be continued
Nature v Nurture & Lifespan Development – Carole 21/6/23 & 19/7/23	Types of Crime	Evidence – collecting & analysing
Attachment - Margery 20/9/23	A Crime Here & Everywhere?	Accident Investigation
Theories of Victimisation	Crime Scene Investigations	Crime Scene Equipment
Offender Profiling	Peneology - Study of the punishment of crimes & prisons	Analysis of Crime   Scene Evidence
Learning & Memory	Race, Age, Gender & Crime	Investigating Electronic Evidence
Clinical  Psychology -   Causes & Cures of Mental Illness & Psychological Disorders – Maggie 16/10/24	Hate Crime	Reliability of Evidence
Personality	Crime & the Media	Establishing Cause of Death
Behavioural Science (incl. Nudge Theory)	Crime in Fiction	Time of Death – Body Farms - Tricia 16/7/2025
Conditioning (incl. Covid restrictions)	Criminal Justice	Crime Reconstruction
Health Psychology - Carole	Causes of Crime	Environmental DNA
Mass Hysteria (moral panic)	Psychological & Biological Theories of Crime
Attitudes & Emotions	Once a Crime Always a Crime?
Social Psychology	Serial Killers, Cannibals, Predators & the Cases That Haunt Us
Neuroscience	Sex Offenders
Aphantasia, Synaesthesia & other phenomena - Tricia	Terrorism
Brain Injury & Illness - Maggie	Organised Crime
Heredity & Genetic Psychological Disorders	White Collar Crime
Needs, Drives & Motivation	Drugs
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Margery 18/10/23	Miscarriages of Justice - Overview & Bayes Theorem Tricia 17/9/25, Guilford Four & Maguire Six Tricia 15/10/25, Central Park Five Carole 21/1/26 & 18/2/26 Peter Sullivan Tricia Lucy Letby Tricia Andrew Malkinson  Carole The Post Office Carole Stephen Lawrence
Metacognition - understanding our own thought processes	Defund the Police? - Tricia
Forensic Psychology – applying psychological theory to criminal investigations	Radical Criminology
Investigating a  Murder with Forensic Psychology Carole & Tricia 15/1/25, 19/2/25, 19/3/25, 16/4/25, 21/5/25 & 18/6/25	Surveillance
Forensic Psychology & Criminal Profiling	Crime Prevention
Attraction, Romance & Love	UK Criminal Law & Justice System
Psychology in medicine & homeopathy – the Placebo Effect etc.	Reporting of Crime
Food Psychology	Police Procedures
Addiction	Human Trafficking
Gender & Sexuality - Tricia	International Criminal Court
Interviewing Children - Margery 18/3/26	Sharia Law & Jewish Law (Beth Din) in the UK

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