PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Whitechapel Murders, James Mckeen Cattell, Eyewitness Testimony
23 May 2016
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Largely applied discipline (applying to the law) rather than academic psychology application of psych to real world issues. First exposure to forensic psych was probs due to the media. The silence of the lambs movie on bau unit of fbi (1991) Only depiction of forensic psych is offender profiling. Offender profiling first appeared in fiction in 1842. First appeared in reality in whitechapel murder case in london (1988) jack the ripper. Forensic refers to knowledge in some field regarding law/legal system from. Latin word forum" central meeting place in roman city where political and economic business conducted. Presence of diseases, nature of environment in which they grow up. Many forensic techniques are not truly scientific but require expert judgment that includes a subjective component that leaves room often considerable room for error: Csi effect jurors in criminal trials expect prosecutors to present forensic evidence, in real trials seldom do.
