PSYC 350 - Psychology of the Criminal Justice System

Institution:

Mountain State University

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Description:

Prereq: 201. Deals with the increasing role psychology plays in the criminal justice system. Areas covered include evaluation of eyewitness testimony, jury selection consultants, coping with pretrial publicity, evaluation of attempts to detect deception (e.g., polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, integrity tests, etc.) , insanity defenses, competency evaluations, and evaluation of efforts to decrease recidivism. F.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mountainstate.edu

Phone Number:

(304) 253-7351

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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