PSYC 2400 : PSYC2400D_Forensic Psychology_Craig Bennell_Winter 2011( Full Sets of Lecture Notes, Enjoy)
13 Mar 2012
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Use of psychology to examine the operation of the legal system: eg. Do certain questions lead to false confessions: psychology in the law. Use of psychology in the legal systems as that system operates: psychology of the law. Psychology to examine the law itself: eg. Psychology: research, nomothetic, experiments, strict, descriptive, multiple, limited, knowledge, methodology, epistemology, criteria, nature, principles, latitude. Weiner and hess (1987: the beginning, forensic psychology in na, forensic psychology in the cjs, forensic psychology in the courts, forensic psychology in law schools, period of rapid growth. Stern and liszt (1910: classroom encounter, answers often inaccurate, emotions reduce recall accuracy. Von schrenck-notzing (1896: german expert witness, extensive pre-trial press coverage, retroactive memory falsification, what we see vs. what is reported. Munsterberg (1908: on the witness stand, psychology and the legal system, resistance from legal scholars, pushed psychology into legal arena.
