Subject Area: Criminology

Explores the psychology of violence, aggression and conflict across criminal and non criminal arenas. Relevant theories focusing on the individual will be canvassed such as psychopathy and sociopathy however the focus will be on how concepts concerned with the power of groups, situations, learning, obedience, authority, and the sociology of emotion (particularly fear and hatred) might be brought to bear on contemporary topics of criminological concern from violent crime and hate crime to terrorism, state sanctioned killing such as the death penalty and at the global level, warfare.