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43 relations: Academic journal, Adversarial system, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Bar Foundation, American Psychological Association, American Psychology–Law Society, American Society of Trial Consultants, Amicus curiae, Applied psychology, Clinical psychology, Cognitive psychology, Competency evaluation (law), Criminal justice, Criminology, Death-qualified jury, Doctor of Philosophy, Elizabeth Loftus, Empirical evidence, Empirical legal studies, Experiment, Eyewitness memory, Eyewitness testimony, Federal Judicial Center, Forensic psychology, Insanity defense, Investigative psychology, Juris Doctor, Law, Law and Human Behavior, List of national legal systems, List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental health, Michael J. Saks, Mistaken identity, Offender profiling, Police psychology, Professor, Psychology, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Research, Scientific jury selection, Social psychology, Therapeutic jurisprudence, Trial consulting.
Academic journal
An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.
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Adversarial system
The adversarial system or adversary system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' case or position before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who attempt to determine the truth and pass judgment accordingly.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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American Bar Foundation
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is an independent, nonprofit national research institute established in 1952 and located in Chicago.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.
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American Psychology–Law Society
The American Psychology–Law Society (AP–LS) is an academic society for legal and forensic psychologists, as well as general psychologists who are interested in the application of psychology to the law.
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American Society of Trial Consultants
Created in 1982, The American Society of Trial Consultants, Inc.
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Amicus curiae
An amicus curiae (literally, "friend of the court"; plural, amici curiae) is someone who is not a party to a case and may or may not have been solicited by a party, who assists a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case, and is typically presented in the form of a brief.
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Applied psychology
Applied psychology is the use of psychological methods and findings of scientific psychology to solve practical problems of human and animal behavior and experience.
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Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
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Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".
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Competency evaluation (law)
In the United States criminal justice system, a competency evaluation is an assessment of the ability of a defendant to understand and rationally participate in a court process.
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Criminal justice
Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have committed crimes.
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Criminology
Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation" originally derived from the Ancient Greek verb "krino" "κρίνω", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logy|-logia, from "logos" meaning: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels.
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Death-qualified jury
A death-qualified jury is a jury in a criminal law case in the United States in which the death penalty is a prospective sentence.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.
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Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus (born Elizabeth Fishman, October 16, 1944)Bower, G. H., (2007).
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Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence, also known as sensory experience, is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.
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Empirical legal studies
Empirical legal studies (ELS) is an approach to the study of law, legal procedure, and legal theory through the use of empirical research.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.
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Eyewitness memory
Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other dramatic event that he or she has witnessed.
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Eyewitness testimony
Eyewitness testimony is the account a bystander or victim gives in the courtroom, describing what that person observed that occurred during the specific incident under investigation.
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Federal Judicial Center
The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts.
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Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the justice system.
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Insanity defense
The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is a defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for his or her actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.
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Investigative psychology
In applied psychology, investigative psychology attempts to describe the actions of offenders and develop an understanding of crime.
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Juris Doctor
The Juris Doctor degree (J.D. or JD), also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (J.D., JD, D.Jur. or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees.
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Law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.
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Law and Human Behavior
Law and Human Behavior is a bimonthly academic journal published by the American Psychology–Law Society.
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List of national legal systems
The contemporary legal systems of the world are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, statutory law, religious law or combinations of these.
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List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental health
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued numerous rulings regarding mental health and how society treats and regards the mentally ill.
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Michael J. Saks
Michael J. Saks is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; he holds a secondary appointment in the department of psychology.
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Mistaken identity
Mistaken identity is a defense in criminal law which claims the actual innocence of the criminal defendant, and attempts to undermine evidence of guilt by asserting that any eyewitness to the crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant, when in fact the person seen by the witness was someone else.
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Offender profiling
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative tool used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator.
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Police psychology
Police psychology, also referred to as "police and public safety psychology," was formally recognized in 2013 by the American Psychological Association as a specialty in professional psychology.
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Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Psychology, Public Policy and Law is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association.
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Scientific jury selection
Scientific jury selection, often abbreviated SJS, is the use of social science techniques and expertise to choose favorable juries during a criminal or civil trial.
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Social psychology
Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
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Therapeutic jurisprudence
Therapeutic jurisprudence ("TJ") studies law as a social force (or agent) which inevitably gives rise to unintended consequences, which may be either beneficial (therapeutic) or harmful (anti-therapeutic).
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Trial consulting
Trial consulting is the use of social scientists, particularly psychologists and communication experts and economists, to aid attorneys in the presentation of a criminal trial or civil lawsuit.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_psychology
