Forensic and Legal Psychology Erasmus University Rotterdam

Overview

This Forensic and Legal Psychology programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam will give you insight into why people misbehave and commit crimes, what the concept of criminal irresponsibility is, and how forensic patients need to be treated. Besides these typical forensic topics, the programme offers insight into legal psychological topics such as deception detection and legal decision making.

• The programme aims at implementing state of the art scientific insights in the field of forensic psychology (i.e. evidence-based practice), with a possibility of focusing on clinical forensic (neuro)psychology, or on legal psychology.
• The programme employs various educational approaches ranging from lectures to practical assignments.
• This programme is unique in its combination of forensic (neuro)psychology and legal psychology in a 1-year programme

Career

This master will make you familiar with forensic and legal psychology topics. There is some room for choice.

If you aim at becoming a clinical forensic psychologist, you should choose a relevant practical internship in the second semester. Note that the number of clinical practical internships is limited, and may require some proficiency at speaking Dutch. Further note that to be successful in your later career as a clinical forensic psychologist, you should have a bachelor degree in clinical psychology. This is so to meet the requirements for the postdoctoral educational programme for GZ-psycholoog.