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Forensic Careers Begin Here
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With the success of TV shows like Criminal Minds and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, interest in forensics and understanding criminal behavior has never been greater – and career opportunities for forensic psychologists and criminal psychologists have never been better. To discover more about graduate school in forensic psychology, we invite you to explore this site or contact us anytime.
Positioned at the intersection between the law and psychology, forensic psychology includes criminal psychology, police psychology, and psychologists working with the courts and law enforcement organizations. Forensic psychologists study stalkers, multiple murderers, predators and their victims (victimology), and bring this expertise into the justice system. In addition, forensic specializations available to our students include: child abuse and neglect, juvenile court, sex offenders, neuropsychology, criminal profiling, terrorism, malingering, jury selection and many more.
The Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant International University is pioneering the field of forensic psychology both nationally and internationally. The Center opened the world’s first doctoral program in forensic studies and now runs the world's largest program. Under the direction of Director Dr. Eric Hickey, the Center for Forensic Studies specializes in training professionals to become well-rounded practitioners who possess broad-based knowledge of both the field of psychology and the law.
Focusing on international graduate study, the Center for Forensic Studies now has programs in both South Africa and Rome, and we are expanding to other international sites. | |
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Eric Hickey, Ph.D.
Director
Ph.D., 1985;
Brigham Young University
Books include: Serial Murderers and Their Victims, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, Controversial Issues in Criminology, and The Myth of a Psychiatric Crime Wave,. Research interests: Serial murderers, paraphilia, stalkers, sex offenders.
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Center for Forensic Studies News
December 4, 2008- Center for Forensic Studies Director Eric Hickey, PhD is presenting at the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assult in Baton Rouge December 8 on the following: Rape/Homicide: The Far End of the Spectrum of Sexual Violence--Many homicides are also crimes of sexual assault, but the criminal justice and social service response to rape/murders is very different than the response for rape alone. In this session one of the nation’s leading criminal psychologists will explore the intersection of sexual assault and homicide and the implications for law enforcement, prosecution, and victim services.
November 25, 2008--The Editor in Chief of the American Psychological Association's Psychological Assessment Journal has asked Center of Forensic Studies Professor Dr. Kyle Boone to serve on its Board of Consulting Editors in 2009. This widely subscribed journal has a strong influence on research and practice in the field of psychology. Dr. Boone is based at our Los Angeles campus.
October 7, 2008--CFS Director Dr. Eric Hickey joins the advisory board of Global Institute of Traumatology, whose mission is to provide effective crisis management for significant trauma episodes in areas of planning, response, intervention and recovery to help promote public safety, restore public order and stabilize members of the impacted community.
August 27, 2008--Congratulations to CFS faculty member Kyle Boone, Ph.D., ABPP (ABCN), who has been named Fellow, of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Boone is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, is author of several books, and spent 22 years as faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Boone is based at our Los Angeles campus. |
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