The main areas of research conducted in the Department of Forensic Psychology and Criminology include:
- characteristic of time perspectives in prisoners,
- analysis of criminal narratives,
- analysis of crime from the perspective of evolutionary psychology (including the theory of life history),
- aesthetic preferences of prisoners,
- the role of art in corrections,
- application of Michael J. Apter’s reversal theory to analysis of deviant behaviors.

 Head of Department:

Przemysław Piotrowski Ph.D.

Team:

Stefan Florek Ph. D.

Bożena Gulla Ph. D.

Kinga Tucholska Ph. D.

.Przemysław Piotrowski Ph.D is the head of the Department of Forensic Psychology and Criminology at the Institute of Applied Psychology at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He is the author of Szalikowcy. O zachowaniach dewiacyjnych kibiców sportowych [Football hooligans: On sport fans’ deviant behaviour, 2000], Subkultury młodzieżowe. Aspekty psychospołeczne [Youth subcultures: Psycho-social aspects, 2003], Profilaktyka w gimnazjum. Projektowanie, realizacja i ewaluacja programów [Prevention in middle schools. Design, implementation and evaluation of prevention programs, 2003; co-author: Krzysztof Zajączkowski], Rozbój. Uwarunkowania psychospołeczne, motywacja i racjonalność sprawców [Robbery. Psycho-social conditions, motivation and rationality of offenders, 2011] and editor of Understanding Problems of Social Pathology (2006). He has published numerous articles on criminal psychology, the conditioning of collective behaviour, the psycho-social roots of violence, and health promotion. The newest book by him (2012) is Chuligani a kultura futbolu w Polsce [Hooligans vs. Polish Football Culture]. Dr Piotrowski is a member of International Society for Criminology and European Society of Criminology and International Academy of Investigative Psychology.