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What is forensic psychology?

What is forensic psychology?. “Any application of psychological research, methods, theory and practice to a task faced by the legal system”. What does a forensic psychologist do?. Many hold full-time jobs as professors or clinicians in non-legal settings

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What is forensic psychology?

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  1. What is forensic psychology? • “Any application of psychological research, methods, theory and practice to a task faced by the legal system”

  2. What does a forensic psychologist do? • Many hold full-time jobs as professors or clinicians in non-legal settings • On the side, they work as expert witnesses, and offer training to lawyers and judges • Some work as mediators • Some are employed as trial consultants • Some do behavioral research for the Secret Service, FBI, etc.

  3. History of “Psychology and Law” • Cesare Lombroso (1836-1909) • “Father of modern criminology” • Healy: founder of Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, 1909 • Sigmund Freud, 1906, proposed that psychology could be of practical use to judges

  4. History of “Psychology and Law” • Hugo Munsterberg • On the Witness Stand, 1908 • Can be called the founder of forensic psychology • Studied eyewitness accuracy, confessions, hypnosis, crime detection, crime prevention • Offered testimony as an expert witness regarding confession truthfulness

  5. History of “Psychology and Law” • Legal realist movement (early 20th century) • 1930s and 1940s • Law and society movement (1950s and 1960s) • Law viewed as a social system • Brown v. Board of Education • Renewed interest, late 1970s: social psychology • 1980s: psychology gains a foothold

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