Top Research Papers on Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology is an increasingly popular subset of psychology that broadly speaks to the intersection of psychology and the law. This broad view of forensic psychology encompasses legal and police psychology, some social psychology, and clinical and nonclinical psychological principles that are relevant to this intersection of psychology and law. This bibliography specifically focuses on clinical forensic psychology, the area of forensic psychology that deals directly with the assessment and treatment of those involved in the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems. As a result, th...

Forensic psychology examines the intersection of human behavior and criminal justice, and it applies theories and skills from psychology to the legal system, including areas such as law enforcement, corrections, victim services and the treatment of offenders. Forensic psychologists work in a variety of settings including correctional facilities, law enforcement agencies, police offices, school and university settings, community service agencies and private practices. In addition to being a springboard for graduate study in psychology, sociology, criminal justice and criminology, the 15-unit Ce...

1. Forensic Psychology and the Role of the Forensic Psychologist 2. Theories of Criminal Behaviour that Help Inform Practice 3. Forensic Mental Health and Criminal Behaviour 4. Psychological Assessments and Intervention 5. Psychological Vulnerability 6. Legal Psychology 7. Research Methods and Design 8. Concluding Comments Bibliography Glossary Index

Forensic psychology examines the intersection of human behavior and criminal justice, and it applies theories and skills from psychology to the legal system, including areas such as law enforcement, corrections, victim services and the treatment of offenders. Forensic psychologists work in a variety of settings including correctional facilities, law enforcement agencies, police offices, school and university settings, community service agencies and private practices. In addition to being a springboard for graduate study in psychology, sociology, criminal justice and criminology, the 15-unit Ce...

Clinical forensic psychology involves assessment and treatment of persons involved in the legal process, or consultation on related matters. Although psychologists who conduct research in forensic contexts are faced with challenges that present themselves in any research context, they are also faced with some unique ones as well. Therefore, in addition to being well versed in general research design and methodological principles from clinical and experimental psychology, researchers must be aware of and responsive to the unique challenges they will face as a function of working in the legal pr...

This chapter provides an introduction to the field of clinical forensic psychology. It focuses on four general topics. First, we provide a definition of forensic psychology and a discussion of how it fits within clinical psychology, arguing that psychologists who work in the field of forensic psychology must have specialized training and experience in the field. Second, we discuss the legal parameters within which forensic assessments are conducted and note that legal standards establish the parameters of the assessment and help focus the clinician's task. We introduce and discuss the psychole...

The dictionary of Forensic Psychology is acyclopaedia of forensic psychology, with a focus on the study of forensic anthropology and its applications in the criminal justice system.

The rich case material in this unique book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of a wide variety of forensic psychology topics through the perspective of the psychologist working with these individuals. In this absorbing and illustrative volume, experienced forensic psychologists explain the specialized field's intersection between psychology and the justice system. It documents psychologists' interviews with involved parties, the law research they conduct, and their testimony in court on issues that include competency to stand trial, Miranda evaluations, defendants' sanity, sente...

Forensic psychology is a burgeoning fi eld in the social and behavioral sciences. It explores the application of the science and the profession of psychology, including questions and issues relating to the law and legal systems. Research and practice in forensic psychology have been approached from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, from psychoanalytic to behavioral-genetic. It also has explored a issues ranging from the criminal mind to the origins of rules that govern the structure of societies. Despite these achievements, however, differences in theoretical perspectives in forensic ...

Forensic psychology has two general definitions: broadly as a field of science that applies psychology to legal issues, and narrowly as a professional specialty in practice. The history of forensic psychology is reviewed from both of those perspectives, but with emphasis on the formal development of forensic psychological practice, which has been established only within the past 40 years. The latter history focuses on the field's development of professional organizations, literature, training mechanisms, and most recently its formal recognition as a specialty by the American Psychological Asso...

The field of forensic psychology is defined, fundamental differences between it and clinical psychology are discussed, and emerging directions for the field are described.

Forensic psychology is strictly defined, and within the terms of this definition specific examples are given and general principles discussed. The use of experimental and observational databank is described, and the value of specific experiments for the production of evidence proving actus reus (criminal commission plus identity), mens rea, and mitigating factors is illustrated. The problems of presenting quantitative evidence in court are mentioned, together with other problems arising from the relationship between psychology and the law.

The paper presents considerations about the so-called forensic psychology, area that at present is generating discussions about the different demands directed to them. In order to situate the forensic psychology at the juncture of the fiftieth anniversary of the profession in Brasil, the paper provides brief excerpts of its story at the national level, some practices originally developed by professionals who have chosen to work in this field and discussions that have been raised in the area of law of children and youth, in family law and in criminal enforcement. Finally, it discusses the conte...

This book discusses psychology, law, and public policy issues in the context of the criminal justice system, and investigates the role of psychology in the development of criminal justice practices.

We summarize recent developments in the field of forensic developmental psychology that challenge traditional conceptions about the reliability of children's reports. The areas covered involve the disclosure patterns of sexually abused children, the nature of suggestive interviews, developmental differences in suggestibility, and the amount of suggestion required to produce false reports and beliefs.

Forensic psychology makes it both a challenge and a blessing, the description of forensic psychology is very straightforward but also complex. At a very basic level, forensic psychology is the application of psychology to the legal system. However, there has been a great deal of debate about the breadth of topics that such a definition includes. Some believe that forensic psychology refers only to the clinical aspects of psychology, such as the assessment and treatment of mental illness. Others believe that forensic psychology should be interpreted more broadly and include nonclinical topics, ...

1. What is forensic and criminal psychology? 2. The social context of crime 3. Crime and the public 4. Theories of crime 5. Juvenile offenders and beyond 6. Violent offenders 7. Sexual offenders 1: rapists 8. Sexual offenders 2: paedophiles and child molesters 9. Police psychology 10. Eyewitness testimony 11. Profile analysis 12. False allegations 13. False confessions 14. Lies, lie detecting and credibility: polygraphy and statement validity analysis 15. Children as witnesses 16. Mental illness and crime 17. Mental, personality and intellectual problems in court 18. Judges and lawyer 19. Juri...

Libraries supporting a forensic psychology undergraduate and/or graduate level college program need to collect materials from a range of disciplines – psychology, law, psychiatry and criminal justice. In this guide I identify the major reference works, journals, databases and other resources that should be in a good forensic psychology collection.

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1999, Vol 44(6), 533–535. This is a review of the book, “Handbook of Forensic Psychology (2nd ed.)” (see record 1998-06712-000). Handbook of Forensic Psychology, in both its definition of the field and in its coverage, opts for th

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PART 1: DEFINING CRIMINOLOGICAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 1: Defining Forensic Psychology Chapter 2: Research Methods in Forensic Psychology PART 2: PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF CRIME Chapter 3: Theoretical Explanations of Crime Chapter 4: Who Commits Crime? The Criminal Mind Chapter 5: Juvenile Criminals PART 3: PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF SPECIFIC CRIME TYPES Chapter 6: The Psychology of Homicide Chapter 7:The Psychology of Terrorism Chapter 8t: Crimes of a Sexual Nature Chapter 9: The Psychology of Firesetting Chapter 10: The Psychology of Theft, Robbery and Burglary Chapter 11: Th...

THE CONTEXT OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY. History of Forensic Psychology (C. Bartol & A. Bartol). Defining Forensic Psychology (A. Hess). Accessing Legal Literature (R. Van Der Velde). APPLYING PSYCHOLOGY TO CIVIL PROCEEDINGS. Mediating Domestic Law Issues (K. Hess & P. Brinson). Personality Assessment in Personal Injury Litigation (J. Butcher & K. Miller). Assessing Educational Disabilities (D. Reschly). Civil Competency (R. Slovenko). APPLYING PSYCHOLOGY TO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. Dangerousness Risk Assessments: Research, Legal, and Clinical Considerations (T. Litwach & L. Schlesinger). Evaluating E...

Clinical forensic psychology can be defined as assessment, treatment, or consultation that revolves around clinical issues occurring in legal contexts. This chapter discusses methodological challenges and approaches that arise in three primary areas of clinical forensic psychology—descriptive forensic assessment (e.g., psycholegal capacities), predictive assessment (e.g., violence risk assessment), and evaluation of legally relevant constructs (e.g., psychopathic personality and malingering). Forensic assessment research is challenged by varying legal definitions, lack of gold standards for va...

The authors intended to reflect about the contribution of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology in the evaluation of sexual offences, according to the Portuguese legislation and medical legal issues.

It is proposed that forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology can combat the erosion of their credibility better by collaboration than by independent efforts.

The cases presented in this paper show that it is wrong to assume that only persons with learning disability or those who are mentally ill make unreliable or false confessions, and future research needs to focus more on the role of personality factors in rendering the evidence of witnesses and suspects potentially unreliable.

* PhD in Psychology, Professor, “National Bureau of Expertises” of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4933-4776, e-mail: info@nbe.am ** “National Bureau of Expertises” of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-8697, e-mail: info@nbe.am a Project administration, Conceptualization, Writing — original draft. b Investigation, Writing — original draft.

Psychology’s roots in Australia go back to 1881, but the first documented evidence of psychology-and-law (psycholegal) research and psychologists working in court and correctional settings only emerged in 1949. The activities of psycholegal researchers and psychologists providing services to the correction, investigative and justice systems are not well-documented. Our aim in this paper is to start recording the histories of these people and the development of the psycholegal and forensic psychology fields. We do this primarily by examining publications and conference papers and recording our ...

The article discusses issues related to psychological violence and identifying the features of conductingforensic psychological examinations in order to establish the fact of psychological violence. Particular attention is paid to the interpretation of the concepts: psychological violence, psychological impact, psychological pressure, emotional violence, verbal aggression, coercion. The article highlights and describes the characteristic features of forensic psychological examination of psychological abuse victims. This article purpose is to identify the key features of the forensic psycholog...

There are already some studies dealing with the historical development of forensic or juridical psychology in Spain. A first type of literature mentions the interest shown by some legal experts in psychology. Among this group, Pedro Dorado Montero, Quintilian Saldaña and Luis Jimenez de Asúa appear as central figures. A second kind of narratives focuses on forensic medicine and criminology. Due to the lack of professional psychologists, physicians (and among them the psychiatrists) are professionals working in these fields, which include psychological issues. In these histories the initiatives...

Results showed that forensic dentists are more psychologically or emotionally affected by child abuse cases and least affected by age estimation cases.

Forensic psychology in the 21st century entails the application of psychology to all aspects of the criminal justice process. Forensic psychologists, therefore, are engaged in the theorization of offending, offender profiling, the psychology of testimony, investigative interviewing, the psychology of juries and judges, and psychological approaches to the punishment and treatment of offenders. Historically, however, forensic psychology, has been narrower in scope. Founded principally in Europe during the late 19th century as a response to the reform of criminal procedure and research on sugges...

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Preliminary evaluation of the use of pharmacological treatment with convicted sexual offenders experiencing high level sexual preoccupation, hypersexuality and/or sexual compulsivity, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology.

Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Importance of Appropriate Research Methods (Barry Rosenfeld and Steven D. Penrod). PART I: GENERAL ISSUES IN FORENSIC RESEARCH. 1 Legal Research Techniques for Social Scientists (Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Stephanie Davidson). 2 Measure Development in Forensic Psychology (Barry Rosenfeld, John Edens, and Sara Lowmaster). 3 Meta-Analysis (Siegfried L. Sporer and Lawrence D. Cohn). 4 Forensic Psychological Research and the Internet (Tarika Daftary-Kapur and Sarah Greathouse). 5 Statistical Principles in Forensic Research (Jennifer Groscup). PART I...

Thoughts of forensic involvement evoke mixed reactions from psychologists. Some psychologists find forensic practice very appealing, others are extremely frightened by the prospect of being involved in the legal system, and still others fall somewhere in between. Psychologists involved in forensic practice perform wide-ranging professional services in varied settings, with a broad spectrum of referral sources and examinees. Yet, providing forensic services tends to be quite different from providing the clinical services for which most practitioners were trained. In forensic practice, psycholog...

This guide is for the NCU specialization Forensic Psychology. It contains resources available in the NCU Library.

This paper proposes two theories for distinguishing scientific from non‐scientific evidence. Under one theory, scientific evidence is based on verifiable experimentation, while non‐scientific evidence is based on education, training, and experience. Under the second theory, scientific evidence provides a generalizable theory, while non‐scientific testimony applies only to a particular case. Most psychiatric and psychological testimony has scientific and non‐scientific elements. Courts in common‐law jurisdictions have developed special strict rules for the admissibility of scientific evidence, ...

These Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology were developed by the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association] and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and were adopted by the APA Council of Representatives on August 3, 2011.

Background: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) has been increasingly utilised in forensic services to target emotional dysregulation that may be linked with self-harm, suicide, offending behaviour, and institutional rule-breaking, yet no systematic review of empirical research in this area has been carried out. Aim: To explore the nature and quality of research into the uses and effectiveness of comprehensive DBT and DBT skills training in forensic services. Method: An electronic search for studies utilising DBT with a forensic sample was carried out using PsycInfo, Scopus, and Web of Knowled...

The central theme of this book is that forensic psychology can benefit from the insights of many other branches of psychology. The contributors draw on the findings of occupational, cognitive, developmental and social psychology, as well as more familiar clinical and criminological approaches, in order to demonstrate the various ways in which psychology can be applied within the criminal justice system.Chapters include illustrations of the application of psychology to the investigative process, to the analysis of offending, to intervening with offenders, and to increasing organizational effect...

The number of training programs in forensic psychology has grown considerably in the past 15 years and little is known about the relative utilities of these various types of training and credentialing.

Indonesia  is in the fourth of  most populous country in the world with a population of around 266,872,775 people (BPS, 2017), which has an impact on the emergence of social problems, crime and others. Central Bureau of Statistics data also illustrates in the period 2014 to 2016 the number of crimes in Indonesia tended to increase significantly in detail years: 2014: 325,317 cases, 2015: 352,936 cases, 2016: 357,197 cases. Meanwhile the number of recidivists also increased significantly. The current legal process, from the beginning to the results of the court rulings, to the correctional stag...

Based on the definition and branches of forensic identification and psychology,the paper discusses the specific application of psychology in forensic identification and explains the significant role of psychology.

Ellis presents a valuable new perspective that proposes that attention to physiological mechanisms shaped by evolutionary forces can provide insights into the causes of crime and sex differences in the patterns of crime.

Objectives. Human rights serve to orientate practitioners to the necessary conditions for a minimally worthwhile life for service users, the prerequisites for a life of dignity and a chance at happiness, and the opportunity to incorporate into their life plans cherished values and goals. In this introduction to the special section paper, I discuss the basic concept of human rights and outline their relevance for clinical practice with offenders. Method. I explore the core values associated with human rights and suggest that one of their primary functions is to protect the internal and e...

Mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, the traditional providers of expert testimony, generally base their opinions solely on their interview of a defendant or plaintiff and on collateral sources (records and interview of other relevant parties). Psychological tests provide psychologists with a third source of information, so psychologists have a more stabile and valid foundation as the basis of their testimony. However, some of psychological tests are more appropriate then others for use in a forensic evaluations. For psychologist entering forensic practice, it is useful to kno...

Popularity of the Rorschach in forensic psychology is evident in the Psychological Abstracts database.

3 The term “forensic” refers to matters that pertain to courts or to law, both civil and criminal. Forensic science involves the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems. Today, virtually all branches of the natural and social sciences have made this application. Psychology, the science of behavior, is no exception. The forensic sciences as a whole have become popular career choices among students, and many scientific professions now have forensic specialties. In addition to forensic psychology, we have, for example, forensic engineering, forensic medicine, forensic pathology, for...