English Literature A-Level
Criminal psychology
What Criminal psychology means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Criminal psychology
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The study of motive, self-justification and the psychology of crime, which Browning's dramatic monologues are examined as studies in.
Topics that use Criminal psychology
- Elements of crime writing - Set texts (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Catholicism, sin and damnation
- Community and respectability
- Crime and punishment
- Crime as a product of poverty and social neglect
- Deception and secrecy
- Detection and method
- Detection and uncertainty
- Evidence and detection
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