PSY 484 - Violence and Aggression

• Understand and analyze the lifetime of developmental processes involved in violence and aggression.
• Develop an understanding for the multi-disciplinary model that incorporates the biological, psychological, political, social and environmental contributors to violent and aggressive behavior.
• Analyze and appreciate how mental illness may or may not be a contributing factor to violence and aggression.
• Understand and critically evaluate how the justice system, imprisonment, other forms of punishment, and the victims’ rights movement affect violent and aggressive behaviors.
• Analyze how the justice system, imprisonment, other forms of punishment, and the victims’ rights movement affect individual victims and society as a whole.
• Learn to articulate the inter-connected risk factors for violent and aggressive behavior.
• Learn about the successful and unsuccessful violence prevention programs while also integrating the obstacles to prevention into a coherent framework for future prevention programs.
• Develop an appreciation for the varied and extensive sources of information/research that encompass topics that psychologists explore.
• Understand and assess the various techniques and tools that are available to psychologists within each the venues that they may be working.
• Learn about and critically evaluate how changing social values impact the tasks of psychologists.