COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
LAW 511	C	9	4	0	0	4	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Main Course Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Dr. Ana Uka anuka@epoka.edu.al , 45
Second Course Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Study program: (the study for which this course is offered)	Integrated second cycle study program in Law
Classroom and Meeting Time:	D104; 8.45 - 12.30
Code of Ethics:	Code of Ethics of EPOKA University Regulation of EPOKA University "On Student Discipline"
Attendance Requirement:	Mandatory
Course Description:	The course touches on fundamental aspects from the general background of the disciplines of psychological science and aims to help the general education of students pursuing law studies. The course provides basic information about the application of psychology in the justice system, the need for psychologists in various judicial processes nowadays, by also dealing with problems of motives and motivation, describing the types of motives as well as some fundamental aspects of the flow of motivational and emotional processes to the human being. The course will particularly focus on the specific problems of the application of psychology in judicial processes. This course aims to help students in the perception of legal and psychological attitudes towards human behavior and how they interact with each other.
Course Objectives:	To understand key concepts in Legal Psychology;- To learn about the theories of criminal behaviours and personality;- To learn about different psychological concepts related to criminal behaviour;- To practice assessment and treatment of offenders

BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE COURSE

1	Theories of Criminal behaviour
2	Theories of personality
3	Assessment of Psychopathy
4	Motivation and perception
5	Violence and intimidation
6	Child abuse and neglect
7	Eyewitness Testimony of Children and Adults
8	Law enforcement and violation
9	Assessment of violence risk

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction to legal psychology. Brief history of legal psychology. Understanding of criminal behaviour and the role of legal psychologists
2	Personality traits and individual differences. Theories of personality and psychopathy.
3	Personality types and psychophysiological, psychoanalytical and psychosocial perspectives
4	Psychological processes. Sensation and perception and the criminal behaviour
5	Memory and its structure. Memory distortion, false memory creation and crime
6	Motivation as a concept, types of motives, laws and principles of motivation, their recognition and treatment. Description of the motive of aggression, motive of suicide, sexual motive and deviant sexual behavior and others.
7	Emotionality; Feelings and emotions, their types, theories on emotions, physiological and bodily aspects of the manifestation of feelings and emotions in human beings and their evaluation.
8	Stress, stressors, types of stress, stress and adaptation, coping with stress
9	Midterm
10	Victimless crime cases; Children as witnesses - Thinking about sexual risks. Criminal competence and responsibility; Juvenile courts and civil courts
11	Criminal Psychology: Violence and Intimidation
12	Problems with memory. Repressed and recovered memory. Sexual risks
13	Evaluating Eyewitness Testimony of Adults
14	Assessing and treating criminal offenders and sex offenders

Prerequisite(s):	N/A
Textbook(s):	Bartol, C. R.; Bartol, A. M. (2018). Psychology and Law. Research and Practice. Second edition.
Additional Literature:	Adshead, G. Crime and Behaviour: An Introduction to Criminal and Forensic Psychology Constanzo, M. & Krauss, D. Forensic and Legal Psychology: Psychological science applied to law. Fourth edition. Goldstein, A. M.; Weiner, I. B. Handbook of Psychology: Volume 11. Forensic Psychology
Laboratory Work:	N/A
Computer Usage:	N/A
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	To understand the theories of criminal behaviour
2	To understand the theories of personality and psychopathy
3	To learn about the concepts of motivation, sensation and perception and their role on the criminal behavior
4	To learn on personal income tax, on national taxes, on social and health contributions
5	To understand the structure of the memory and different types of memory
6	To evaluate eyewitness testimony of children and adults
7	To understand criminal competence and responsibility
8	To learn how to intervene with offenders

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Integrated second cycle study program in Law Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	30
Project	1	10
Term Paper	1	15
Final Exam	1	40
Attendance		5
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	4	64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	4	64
Mid-terms	1	3	3
Assignments	2	8	16
Final examination	1	3	3
Other		7	0
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE COURSE LECTURER

It is recommended that the students have access to some databases to be able to download papers that we have been using during the course. Students have been very active and interested to learn beyond the scope of the course, therefore, a list of books and documentaries have been provided to the students to get more knowledge about the filed of study.