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CRSCI101Crime Science and Prevention (2025)

This paper introduces the topics, theories, and approaches that make up Crime Science. The central focus is on understanding crime.

25B (Hamilton), 25B (Online), 25B (Secondary School - Unistart)

CRSCI201Crime Patterns and Analysis (2025)

The focus of this paper is on crime as a potentially preventable event. Crimes occur in a patterned way that is partly determined by situational factors and people's decision-making. This paper introduces students to the...

25A (Online)

FPSYC101Forensic and Criminological Psychology (2025)

This paper introduces students to forensic psychology and encompasses a wide range of topics derived from the intersection of psychology with the crime, the legal system and the criminal justice system.

25A (Hamilton), 25A (Online), 25A (Secondary School - Unistart)

FPSYC201Psychological Criminology (2025)

Crime is a result of how people think, feel, and behave within their ecological context, making psychology one of the core disciplines in understanding, explaining and addressing problems associated with crime.

25B (Online)

FPSYC301Correctional Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (2025)

This paper examines the application of psychological theory, research and practice to the operation of correctional systems and their various roles with the people in their care. There is a strong emphasis on New Zealand...

25B (Online)

PSYCH100Brain, Behaviour and Cognition (2025)

This paper introduces perceptual systems, mechanisms of learning, emotions and motivation, the biological basis of psychology, such as brain structure and functioning, processes underlying behaviour, memory and cognition...

25A (Hamilton), 25A (Tauranga)

PSYCH101Social Psychology, Health and Well-being (2025)

This paper will introduce major issues in psychology particularly as they relate to health, wellbeing, mental illness, forensic psychology, lifespan development, and social factors in a range of contexts.

25B (Hamilton), 25B (Tauranga)

PSYCH322Memory and Cognition (2025)

Research, theories and principles in memory and cognition, with an emphasis on the applications to real-world problems, such as the overlap of psychology and the law.

25A (Hamilton)

SOCIO102The Sociology of Crime, Deviance and Social Justice (2025)

This paper provides students with an introduction to criminology and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the New Zealand context.

25A (Hamilton), 25A (Tauranga)