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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 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 (CFS) at Alliant International University is pioneering the field of forensic psychology both nationally and internationally. CFS opened the world’s first doctoral program in forensic studies and now runs the world's largest program. Under the direction of Systemwide Director Dr. Eric Hickey, CFS specializes in training professionals to become well-rounded practitioners who possess broad-based knowledge of both the field of psychology and the law.
Would you like to study in South Africa? What about Rome? The Center for Forensic Studies now has programs in both South Africa and Rome, and we are expanding to other international sites. Contact us for more information. | |
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Eric Hickey, Ph.D.
Systemwide Director
Ph.D., 1985;
Brigham Young University
Books include: The Myth of a Psychiatric Crime Wave, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, and Controversial Issues in Criminology. Research interests: Serial murderers, paraphilia, stalkers, sex offenders.
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Center for Forensic Studies News
October 11, 2008--CFS announces our fall Distinguished Speakers Series event featuring Dr. Thomas Grisso, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Psychology, and Director of the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Grisso will present at our Fresno campus November 6 and at our Los Angeles campus on November 7, 2008. Find detail here. The event is free and open to current and prospective CFS students and Alliant faculty, students, and staff.
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, Division 40 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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