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Law of Psychology. Some legal (e.g., Perlin, 1985) and psychological (e.g., Wulach, 1998) scholars study and write about the law affecting the practice and science of psychology (aka law of psychology).
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The plethora of applications of psychology to law can be differentiated in terms of what have been defined as: (a) psychology in law; (b) psychology and law; and (c) psychology of law. According to Blackburn (1996: 6), psychology in law refers to specific applications of psychology within law: such as the
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Introduction Legal aspects of children as witnesses Evaluations of Live Link/closed-circuit television (CCTV) Child witnesses and popular beliefs about them Children’s remembering ability and autobiographical memories Deception in children Factors that impact on children’s testimony Enhancing children’s testimony Interviewing children in sexual abu...
Introduction A jury of twelve: historical background and legal aspects The notion of an impartial and fair jury: a critical appraisal Methods for studying juries/jurors What do we know about juries? Defendant characteristics Victim/plaintiff characteristics Interaction of defendant and victim characteristics Lawyer and judge characteristics Hung ju...
Introduction Admissibility of expert evidence United States England and Wales Australia, New Zealand and Canada The impact of expert testimony by psychologists Appearing as an expert witness Conclusions Revision questions Additional reading
While the decision by Cambridge University Press to go for a fourth edition was unexpected, I accepted the challenge having first, as in the past, been assured by my wife Maria and our children Elena and Konstantinos-Raphael that I would have their full support and understanding. Little did they know, of course, that this time they would need to de...
Jan 1, 2014 · Abstract. Psychology and law is nowadays defined as a research area that covers a spectrum of theoretical and practical problems arising on the border of both disciplines.
Shocked at miscarriages of justice and looking to understand offender, investigator, and justice-system player behavior, society is looking to legal psychology for both explanations and solutions. This is what we wanted our issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science to address.
Feb 23, 2023 · The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law is an up-to-date, scholarly, and comprehensive volume that provides broad coverage of psychology–law topics. The field of psychology–law can be broadly divided into applied and experimental domains.
in legal rules and practices. We narrow our focus specifically to social psychology, which we define as the scientific study of the ways in which individuals’ thoughts, feel-ings, and behaviors are influenced by the real, implied, or imagined presen.
