PSYC 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Forensic Psychology, Precedent, Nomothetic
12 Jan 2017
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Police are the first point of contact, they decide whether you get processed or not. They have a huge amount of discretion for low offenses, very little for high offenses high criminal offenses will be processed through the criminal justice system. In 1995, these two associations decided to petition the apa to recognize forensic psych as a specialization/sub-discipline within psychology. They had to define the field in their proposal, and this is the definition they included: weiner (1997) Issues arising out of the relationship between human behaviour and the law, legal system and legal process: weiner defined forensic psychology as this. If you"re doing this, you"re considered a forensic psychologist. It"s a lot about research but also a lot about how that research informs the practice. Psychology is viewed as a separate discipline from the law. Research endeavors are what happen in psychology and the law: the innocence project trying to free wrongfully convicted death row inmates.
