Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paul Bernardo, Police Misconduct, Mania
22 Mar 2016
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Harder than it looks on tv: history & challenges of forensic psychology. A ield of psychology that includes: clinical pracices in forensic psychology: Treatment: excludes psychologists who primarily conduct forensic research and/or teach in the discipline. The research endeavor that examines aspects of human behaviour directly related to the legal process. The professional pracice of psychology within or in consultaion with a legal system. When asking in court if he"s a forensic psychologist, brigham writes: My most accurate current response would seem to be, well it depends " and in my experience, judges hate responses of that sort, which they deem unnecessarily vague . There is a lack of agreed upon deiniion, no clear training model. 1899: william healey lobbied for the development of separate juvenile courts: children were held up to the same proceedings as people aged 30, etc. Not the sole insigator: hermann ebbinghaus: memory loss, alfred binet: children"s ability as eyewitnesses.
