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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.
2 Απρ 2017 · Often considered the “father” of the field of psychology and law, Hugo Munsterberg’s rec-ognition of the impact psychology should have on the courts was penned over a century ago, with Munsterberg asserting that experimental psychology needs to inform legal procedures.
On a larger scale, understanding what motivates criminals to break the law—whether poverty, personality, or otherwise—is necessary for creating the societal conditions that may allow them to stop.
15 Οκτ 2014 · Mental health courts (MHCs) are a popular type of problem-solving court, and there is ample evidence that they reduce recidivism and increase participation in community-based treatment.
16 Δεκ 2019 · Envisioning the role of counseling psychologists in promoting justice within the justice system, we developed a framework that focuses on the macrolevel and system intervention aspects of advocacy, drawing on psychologists’ strengths in research and intervention.
14 Αυγ 2008 · In some cases, the development of the law itself is based upon psychology. Social psychology emphasizes that self-regulatory motivations can also be activated if people believe that they have an obligation to conform to the law.
1 Δεκ 2019 · Informing the courts with the best research. For six decades, APA has brought psychological science to bear on critical societal issues such as discrimination and marriage equality through its “friend of the court” briefs. Here are 10 that have made a particularly strong impact.
