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Violent and Sexual Offenders

When you'll study it
Semester 2
CATS points
15
ECTS points
7.5
Level
Level 6
Module lead
Michelle Newberry
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

Would you like to understand why people - mostly men - are violent, or commit rape, or sexually abuse young children? Are people who do such things mentally ill? What might have happened to

them in their lives that makes them commit such serious offences? Can such people be rehabilitated? Or should they just be locked up forever? These are the kind of challenging but intriguing questions

which this third year optional module asks you to consider. It brings together theory and practice from forensic psychiatry and psychology, sociological criminology, and psychoanalysis to consider some of the possible causes of violent and sexually violent crime, and possible ways of working effectively with these offenders to help them to change.