In selecting a topic, you are welcome to pick a topic that is of interest to you. You may also find it helpful to see some potential topics that would be good areas to research for your project, which you are welcome to utilize and develop for your topic. Please review the list below to assist you in topic selection.
Suggested Research Topics Related to Forensic Psychology:
Validity and feasible utility of criminal profiling
Treatment efficacy of personality disorders which relate to criminogenic behaviors
Rehabilitation models and their impact on the correctional system
Efficacy of treatment and supervision models utilized with sexual offenders
Threat assessment prediction, accessibility, and utility in educational contexts
Juvenile recidivism in the context of different treatment and correctional modalities
Eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other police techniques and their impact on the judicial process
Involuntary psychological treatment in the correctional setting and impacts on outcomes
Efficacy of treatment in a correctional environment
Commitment statutes and their efficacy relative to recidivism
Neurodevelopmental disorders, competency, and rehabilitation
Developmental pathways for criminogenic or psychopathic behaviors and efficacy of a juvenile intervention
Impacts of psychological science and education on law enforcement policy, training, and/or daily operations
Impacts of forensic psychology reports in courtroom proceedings