PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confounding, Univariate, Relative Change And Difference
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Introduction to forensic psychology and the study of criminal behavior. What is forensic psychology: forensic psychology, an interdisciplinary branch of psychology, that involves the application and production of psychological knowledge to problems, issues, and circumstances in the civil and criminal justice systems. 2 areas of the legal system: civil - private law; disputes between private parties. Criminal code: e. g. , custody and access, defamation and malpractice suits, criminal - public law; the government enforces the rights and interests of the public; involves a violation of the criminal code. Criminal justice or correctional psychology: the (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al(cid:863) pro(cid:374)g of forensic psychology, study of the psychological causes and correlates of criminal behavior, applications of this psychological knowledge to offenders in justice settings. Sociology: emphases placed on demographic and group correlates of crime (saucer), sex, age, urbanity, class, ethnicity, religion, groups of society as a whole and how they influence criminal activity, e. g. , unequal power distribution in society.
