Educational and Psychological Counseling Center (EPCC)
Sana'a University
Introduction:
In Islam, human rights are not granted by a king or a ruler, nor are they merely a matter of a resolution issued by an international authority or organization. Human rights in Islam are binding rights by virtue of their divine source that cannot be canceled, changed, or abandoned. They are not allowed to be violated or suspended.
Islam emphasizes the right to live in peace and justice. Life is a divine gift to human beings, which must be secured and defended using all means.
Criminal law was previously marked by cruelty, restrictions, and ambiguity, and the criminal investigation used to rely on trying to obtain the truth through the use of violence, compulsion, and force, which led to depriving citizens of their freedoms, property, and even their lives. Studying crime psychology and criminal justice has led to abolishing the means of torture. Thus, legislators had to gradually adopt criminal evidence instead, and the investigation became dependent on rules and principles within the law.
About the Program:
The Master Program in Crime Psychology and Criminal Justice is considered a science that studies criminals’ thinking, ideas, intentions, and reactions, in addition to their movements, which play an important role in committing crimes. It also studies how justice is applied and put into effect.
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 Master Program in Crime Psychology & Criminal Justice seeks to solve a wide range of common psychological issues and problems and help the learner acquire a set of typical characteristics, physical traits, and ideological psychological knowledge to be applied at crime scenes, which restricts the criminal’s acts and helps in their confession of crimes, linking these expectations to criminal psychology, including the nature of crime, its motive, history, etc.
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.
The Program Objectives:
sn | Courses |
1. | Research seminar (group discussion) on the principles and methods of scientific research. |
2. | Research seminar / group discussion on advanced statistics methods. |
3. | Research seminar on psychology of crisis and disaster management. |
4. | Research seminar/ group discussions on test sets and psychological and educational measurements |
5. | Research seminar /group discussion on general and physiological psychology. |
6. | Research seminar / group discussion on organizational psychology. |
7. | Research seminar/ group discussion on administrative and industrial psychology. |
8. | Research seminar/ group discussion on organizational social psychology. |
9. | Research seminar /group discussion on personality and leadership psychology. |
10. | Research seminar/ group discussion on psychology of human resources management and cultural diversity management. |
11. | MA Thesis |
Admission Requirements:
Applicants must:
hold a Bachelor’s degree from a Yemeni university, any other recognized university or equivalent.
pass the personal interview determined by the department.
not have been expelled from any university for disciplinary reasons.
comply with the admission requirements specified in the unified regulations for graduate studies and their executive rules at the university