Educational and Psychological Counseling Center (EPCC)
Sana'a University
Introduction:
The Educational and Psychological Counseling Center offers a distinguished program in the psychology of crime and criminal justice, aligned with modern scientific methods for proving crimes and identifying perpetrators. This involves extracting any traces left at the crime scene. Research has focused on studying and detecting the physical evidence left by criminals using methods previously imperceptible to the human senses with their limited capabilities. All of this is aimed at obtaining physical evidence of the crime. Psychological illnesses are numerous, and as a result of the modern era’s progress, prosperity, preservation of freedoms, and the development of technology, along with the evolution of laws and human rights, the field of the psychology of crime and criminal justice has emerged. This science focuses on the applied study of human behavior, based on the application of psychological principles and laws. Modern innovations in research and the acquisition of physical evidence have greatly aided the justice system. Those working in the field of criminal justice have been able to uncover the secrets of crimes by studying the crime scene. It has been established that every criminal leaves physical traces that identify them and contribute to the application of the legal system. This science studies the thoughts, intentions, reactions, and actions of criminals that play a role in committing crimes. The crime.
Vision
To be a leading center in providing excellent services in nurturing and encouraging innovators and talented individuals, offering educational guidance and counseling to ordinary individuals as well as those with special needs, providing psychological counseling, training, and rehabilitation services, and offering psychological therapy services for students, researchers, and the community, with commitment to providing the best competitive services at local and regional levels.
Mission
The program, Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice, works to solve a large number of psychological issues, and establishes a set of optimal physical attributes and psychological information applicable to the crime scene that limit the perpetrator and help in the truth to admit to committing crimes; most of these expectations in Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice correspond to the form of the crime, its motives, its history, and its character.
Goals
The program aims to:
Solve a wide range of problems and cases in criminology, and analyze the expectations of criminal psychology and criminal justice specialists.
Identify the nature, motives, history, and characteristics of crime through the following objectives:
Studying human behavior.
Identifying issues and problems.
Training professionals in criminal psychology.
Training those interested in the field of criminal psychology and criminal justice.
Protecting society from harsh conditions and crime.
Studying the offender’s personal details in the field of criminology.
Evaluating cases.
Importance
All types and forms of courts require specialists in criminology and criminal justice to identify the psychological and mental state of the criminal in general, and the time of committing the crime in particular, to gain a deeper understanding of the criminal’s personality, psychological and mental health, and the extent of their eligibility to stand trial or defend themselves. The MA program in criminal psychology focuses on issues and topics related to psychology, law, crime, abnormal human behaviors, strange tendencies towards crime, understanding and analyzing personality, and understanding the extent of the criminal’s awareness of achieving criminal justice.
The Crime Psychology & Criminal Justice Program targets the following:
The specialists and criminal psychologists in relevant institutions and bodies, including (Ministry of Justice, Judiciary, Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Interior, judicial and evidence gathering officers, lawyers, and other related fields.
This program offers the main trends in counselling and psychotherapy through qualified researchers in theoretical and practical aspects. The program includes a detailed study of theoretical and practical trends and activities of the major psychological program in counselling and guidance, in addition to behavioural, human, emotional analysis, and selective knowledge. It also involves comparing and evaluating scientific theories in terms of their strengths and weaknesses, with a focus on enhancing the strengths.
The Program Objectives:
The program aims at:
-Promoting psychological services methodologically and professionally to meet the needs and interests of society.
– Providing knowledge in crime psychology and criminal justice.
– Offering solutions to a wide range of problems and issues in criminology, and analysing the expectations of the criminologist and criminal justice psychologist with the nature and type of crime, its motives and history through the following:
Studying human behaviour and specialized sciences in criminology and criminal justice.
Studying various cases of human behaviour, identifying issues and problems and understanding the criminal’s motives and ideas in criminology field and the causes of such unacceptable and abnormal behaviours.Preparing the students to be highly qualified and competent experts in their major (crime psychology and criminal justice), and be able to identify and recognize the criminal’s motives, their reactions after committing the crime and other issues related to crime psychology , criminal justice and case diagnosis.
Course materials included in the program
First: University and Center Required Courses.... Applicants must pass the required courses, which are the following university and center requirements:
Course Title | الساعات المعتمدةCredit Hours | اسم المقرر | ||||
نظريةTh. | عمليةPr. | تمارينTut. | الإجماليTotal C.H | |||
1. | Scientific research methodology and methods | 8 week | 4 week | 2 week | 14week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في منهجية وطرق البحث العلمي |
2. | advanced statistical methods (s.p.s.s) | 8 week | 4 week | 2 week | 14week | طرق الاحصاء المتقدم |
3. | Research panel discussions in the psychology of crisis and disaster management | 8 week | 4 week | 2 week | 14week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم نفس ادارة الازمات والكوارث |
4. | Research panels on batteries of psychological and educational tests and measures | 8 week | 4 week | 2 week | 14week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في بطاريات الاختبارات والمقاييس النفسية والتربوي |
5. | Physiological Psychology | 8 week | 4 week | 2 week | 14week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم النفس العام والفسيولوجي |
Total Credit Hours | 40 | 20 | 10 | 70 HOURS | اجمالي الساعات المعتمدة | |
Second: Compulsory courses for the specialization
Course Title | الساعات المعتمدةCredit Hours | اسم المقرر | ||||
نظريةTh. | عمليةPr. | تمارينTut. | الإجماليTotal C.H | |||
1. | Scientific research methodology and methods | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في منهجية وطرق البحث العلمي | |||
2. | advanced statistical methods (s.p. s. s) | 12 week | طرق الاحصاء المتقدم | |||
3. | Research panel discussions in the psychology of crisis and disaster management | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم نفس ادارة الازمات والكوارث | |||
4. | Research panels on batteries of psychological and educational tests and measures | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في بطاريات الاختبارات والمقاييس النفسية والتربوي | |||
5. | Physiological Psychology | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم النفس العام والفسيولوجي | |||
6. | Human psychology | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم النفس القانون الانساني | |||
7. | Crime Psychology | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم نفس الجريمة والعدالة الجنائية | |||
8. | Psychology of law | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في 8 علم نفس القانون | |||
9. | Psychology of the judicial system | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم نفس النظام القضائي | |||
10. | Psychology of cybercrime | 12 week | حلقات نقاش بحثية في علم نفس الجريمة الالكترونية | |||
Total Credit Hours | 120 week | اجمالي الساعات المعتمدة | ||||
Third: Elective courses.....None
Fourth: Master's Thesis ....... The student must prepare and discuss a scientific thesis worth (6) credit hours.
Admission Requirements:
Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from a Yemeni university, a recognized university, or its equivalent.
Applicants must pass a personal interview and, if there are more applicants than the available slots, a competitive selection process.
Applicants must not have been dismissed from any other university for disciplinary reasons.
Applicants must comply with the admission requirements stipulated in the Unified Regulations for Postgraduate Studies and its implementing rules at the university.
Program graduation requirements:
Completion of the preparatory courses required by the Master’s program if the applicant’s specialization does not align with the program’s specialization.
Successful completion of the specified coursework within the program, with a minimum grade of “Good” (75%). If a student achieves a grade below 75%, they must take remedial courses to reach the required grade or be awarded a postgraduate diploma, at which point their enrollment in the Master’s program will be terminated.
The total required grades or marks for graduation. Students cannot register for a Master’s thesis until they have completed all credit hours according to the established course plan and achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 75% in the required courses.