Specialist Diploma in Criminal Profiling, Psychopathology of Violent Offenders and Predicting the Risk of Violence

This Specialist Diploma meets the growing need for more in-depth multidisciplinary and practical training for those professionals who interact with violent offenders, whether within the framework of criminal prosecutions, enforcement of sentences or even after their sentence has been completed.

In order to meet the challenges of preventing and treating violent crime, applied knowledge must be applied and skills acquired in the sphere of legal, criminal and forensic psychology. In fact, both the professionals responsible for drawing up the corresponding experts’ reports and those working in the legal, institutional and care-giving fields require, at the appropriate level, updated knowledge concerning forensic psychopathology and psychological profiling of violent offenders, and specific training in analysis of the relationship between mental illness and/or personality disorders, on the one hand, and the origin, persistence or recurrence of serious and/or serial offences, on the other hand. Moreover, the highly complex nature of criminal and penitentiary cases, particularly in the area of serial serious offences, makes it even more important to acquire more specialist knowledge.