Forensic Psychology - Science topic

The validity of dissociative memory in forensic contexts and the causes of the so-called "memory wars" are discussed. Misconceptions between clinical and forensic psychology, a deficient definition of amnesia, and the difficulties inherent in studying traumatic memories contribute to the persistence of this controversy. Particularly in the field of...

Forensic psychology features a long history in developing country like India and other countries too. In the three decades it's being recognized as an applied field of psychology for the detection of crime, intervention and rehabilitation of crime victims. Besides in the past three decades, technological advancements have changed the mindset of the...

Oral Presentation on the Descriptive Model of Voyeuristic Behaviour (DMV) given at the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology annual conference.

A compilation of various items within the topic of serial and atypical homicide, including various cases, topics like media, murderabilia, mental illness and recent research, plus reflections on the vocation of studying and teaching serial murder and forensic psychology.

Researchers in cognitive and forensic psychology have long been interested in the impact of individual differences on eyewitness memory. The sex of the eyewitness is one such factor, with a body of research spanning over 50 years that has sought to determine if and how eyewitness memory differs between males and females. This research has significa...

Forensic psychology is a branch of applied psychology in which the knowledge and skills of psychology are used in the collection, evaluation, and presentation of evidence to the judiciary. The connection between the mental state and the law has been long-standing throughout history, resulting in the emergence of forensic psychology. Plato’s work in...

The existence of information from forensic linguistics experts and forensic psychology experts is very much needed by law enforcement officers in the criminal justice system. to make light of a crime. The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of forensic linguistics and forensic psychology experts in helping law enforcement officers to seek...

RESUMEN La Psicología Jurídica y Forense en México es una disciplina relativamente joven que se ha desarrollado de manera veloz en los últimos años guiándose del sólido avance de otros países que le anteceden con varias décadas. Sin embargo, existen particularidades en el sistema de justicia mexicano y en la propia cultura que exigen un desenvolvim...

The category of forensic examinations includes examinations conducted in civil or criminal proceedings by court order. Forensic examinations are carried out in specialised forensic institutions or outside these institutions in accordance with the procedure established by law. A significant number of forensic examinations are conducted in forensic d...

The majority of people view color therapy as an alternative therapy. It is a rather young field of study. There are a tonne of various elements in life that might affect your mood and mental health. It is proposed that colors and colored lighting can improve one’s physical or mental health. If you want to create a calm and clear workplace, it’s cri...

The Indian context, where juvenile crime rates have been rising in recent years, is examined to evaluate the viability and significance of introducing criminal profiling tools into the investigation process in the context of Indian legislation and societal norms. The ethical and legal issues in creating a juvenile profile for the Indian criminal ju...

The growing popularity of social media raises concerns about children's online safety. Of particular concern are interactions between minors and adults with predatory intentions. Unfortunately, previous research on online sexual grooming has relied on time-intensive manual annotation by domain experts, limiting both the scale and scope of possible...

Instances of racial disparities are well documented in the United States' criminal justice system. This study reviewed the literature and conducted quantitative analyses on the role of race in forensic decision making among practitioners and other stakeholders in the criminal justice system. We hypothesized that Black, Indigenous, and People of Col...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) consists of any action that holds the intention to inflict physical, sexual and/or psychological damages to the offending person’s partner. This study aims to identify the psychopathological symptoms in IPV offenders and victims. Our sample consisted of 59 offenders and 63 IPV victims for whom the assessment was requ...

У статті розглядаються методи та підходи формування базових експертологічних компетентностей майбутніх поліцейських-криміналістів, судових експертів-психологів, юристів-правознавців у процесі професійної підготовки у вищій школі Міністерства внутрішніх справ України з специфічними умовами навчання. Визначено експертологічні та криміналістичні систе...

The goal of this study is to show the relationship between the 5-factor model of personality and aggression in 54 suspects of domestic violence, between 23 and 68 years old, assessed in the Victims Information and Assistance Office (GIAV) within the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The results show us a positive correlation between neuroticism and physi...

One of the applied areas of criminal psychology, the forensic psychology presents how the knowledge of psychology can be applied in the most optimal way in order to effectively detect individual crimes. A trend has appeared in law enforcement agencies for psychologists to carry out special activities in the criminal field. One specific activity is...

This manuscript explored the integration of positive psychological science in the context of treatment and rehabilitation of persons who use drugs (PWUDs). Banking on the psychological needs of PWUDs based on the initial investigation conducted by Masanda et., al. (2022), this study endeavors to design a Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI) progr...

Concern about bias in forensic decision-making has emerged as a major interest in the past decade. An evidence-based approach to forensic psychology, including child custody evaluations, requires empirical monitoring of decision-making processes. This study examined a sample of community custody evaluation reports (N = 91) to examine prevalence and...

Biometric modalities are used to identify the gender of an individual based upon their physiometrics or behaviometric data. Gender plays a crucial role in most applications like banking, security, document authorization, forensics, psychology, human-computer interventions, and many more. Gender classification using handwritten signatures is still c...

Introduction For many years, the crime of rape has been the focus of attention of numerous representatives of criminal law doctrines, psychologists and sexologists, and is also part of the considerations of courts and penitentiary centers. Statistical reports made available by the police clearly indicate that in recent years the problem of sexual c...

The pedagogical model of tutoring relies on a facilitative educational and mediating relationship. This article aims to analyse a Service-Learning (SL) project based on one-to-one tutoring, in which a group of university students from different degree courses (Work and Organizational Wellbeing Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology an...

Forensic scientists perform their work only for criminal justice system. They struggle with the knowledge that the work they do is not ordinary science, but a science used by a complex system that assesses guilt or innocence. There is also value in revealing how diverse methods of science are conducted in the real world with real consequences. The...

Psychopathy: The Basics is an accessible text that provides a compact introduction to the major findings and debates concerning this complex personality disorder. This book provides an overview of the field and covers a wide range of research findings from genetics to psychosocial developmental explanations. It begins with an exploration of the hi...

A qualitative study of legal practitioners’ perceptions of the role of forensic psychologists in proceedings involving parental alienation (PA) is presented. Data on 71 legal practitioners in the state of Mato Grosso/Brazil were collected via online survey and then subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results focus on the perform...

The growing trend in the number of shootings cases in schools determines the need to take preventive measures to identify minors at risk of committing socially dangerous acts. The purpose is to determine approaches for interdepartmental interaction between specialized medical organizations and educational organizations in the aspect of minors auto-...

The paper presents the experimental study of the characteristics of coping strategies and aggressive behavior in persons involved in terrorist crimes. The survey involved 32 people detained by law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic and undergoing a comprehensive forensic psychological and psychiatric examination on the basis of the State...

Con una visión clínica integral a los trastornos psicológicos en la población infanto-juvenil-desarrollo, inteligencia, personalidad y comportamiento-, entre los meses de septiembre y diciembre de 2022, como parte de la planta docente de la Licenciatura en Psicología de la Unidad Académica Multidisciplinaria Campus Calpulalpan, Universidad Autónoma...

This dissertation presents a comprehensive criminological analysis of the global trends of crime and imprisonment. By utilizing data from various reputable sources, including the National Crime Records Bureau, TATA Trust, and Amnesty International, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the complex factors that contribute to crime and impri...

The scientific discussion that has been going on in recent decades about the possibility and admissibility of examination of the reliability of testimony demands the study of some leading foreign countries experience, where such examination has long become a fact of practical jurisprudence. The goal of the study is to analyse the theoretical insigh...

** Awarded Honorable Mention for Research at the 38th Annual American College of Forensic Psychology Symposium ** Parental Alienation impacts 3.5 million children annually during high-conflict divorce proceedings in the United States (Bernet, 2008; Harman et al., 2021). The family system dynamic constitutes a form of serious mental health dysfunct...

The importance of legal psychology at the international level has gained ground in the last ten years due to the increase in criminality within the so-called transnational organized crime. Drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, femicides, migrant smuggling, and genocide are examples of criminal behavior that crosses borders between...

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. To define the influences, scope, and objectives of criminology 2. To highlight the main criminological approaches and theories 3. To explain how theories interpret the existence of free will in criminal behavior 4. To describe the different typologies of crime 5. To explain the interfaces between forensic psychology, criminal...

Although it is widely known that eyewitness identification and testimony is inaccurate and unreliable, it remains one of the central factors in guilty verdicts. Despite the "CSI effect"-juries and judiciaries (and the public) expect the presentation of irrefutable DNA and other forensic evidence, which does not exist in the majority of criminal cas...

Unit 7: Forensic Psychology in Practice 'What works' Literature in Reducing Re-offending Recidivism, or the rate of reoffending that is measured by re-arrest rates, is one of the main concepts in criminal justice. Recent studies in the U.S. suggest that more than two-thirds of offenders released from prisons were re-arrested within three years (Lan...

Forensic Psychology in Criminal Investigations – Offender Profiling

Practical applications of Forensic Psychology are usually subjected to stricter standards of evidence and critical scrutiny than other areas of social science as it is subject to legal burden of proof. Therefore, any research study that has the objective to add value in legal applications will be held to the same standard if the knowledge is to be...

Personal Attributes of Offenders

The understanding of terrorism and its psychological implications are essential in order to implement policies and counter-terrorism prevention strategies. A deeper understanding of forensic issues, counterintelligence, and vulnerabilities of potential targets of these harmful terrorist activities and to anticipate them are important in psychologic...

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Forensic Psychology: Research and Practice, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/24732850.2023.2181121. This study experimentally tested jurors’ claims that their expert credibility perceptions are independently influenced by expert training and ex...

Objective: Identifying the psychological traces of childhood traumas andlearned negative life dynamics in adult life along with analyzing andtreating mental trauma are important application areas of clinical forensicpsychology. In this study, it was aimed to reveal the power of earlymaladaptive schema sub-dimensions in explaining feelings of anger...

In present days, as education and learning paths are more evolving, it is leading to several subject specialisation. In this scenario, it is very important to discuss about the future aspects of psychology in forensic science along with criminology. Psychology in forensic can be very exciting for field works. Choosing psychology in forensic science...

Objective: State of Washington v. Sisouvanh (2012) was the first case in which an appellate court asserted the need for cultural competence in competency-to-stand-trial evaluations. A court reiterated this need in State of Washington v. Ortiz-Abrego (2017). Research in forensic psychology seldom addressed cultural considerations in pretrial evalua...

Police killings of Black civilians have brought unprecedented attention to racial and ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice and legal systems. However, these topics have been underexamined in the field of law-psychology, both in research and forensic-clinical practice. We discuss how a racial justice framework can provide guidance for advan...

Introduction: The efficacy of psychological interventions delivered under the Mental Health Act (MHA) (1983) in England and Wales is unclear. While meta-analyses have reviewed acute and forensic psychological interventions in wider geographical areas, there has been no review specifically in the unique MHA context. Aim: A systematic review was c...

Sovereign Citizens comprise an understudied right‐wing extremist movement in the United States who have grown in notoriety in recent years due to several high‐profile instances of violence. Despite this, little empirical research has been conducted on Sovereign Citizens, including research on assessing their risk for violence. In this study, we sou...

The field of forensic psychology has been growing in prominence in the past couple of decades. Psychology is used to detect the deception of the persons are involved in many areas that relate to crime, both solving crime and absolving people wrongly accused of committing crimes. The goal of lie detection is the discovery of a truth that is known to...

This comment examines a threat to the development of law and psychology as a “public science” (i.e., one that goes beyond theory to address important issues in society), a failure to think critically about effect sizes. Effect sizes estimate the strength or magnitude of the relationship between variables and therefore can help decision makers under...

This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience...

In the article analysed the practice of obtaining opinions of expert psychologist in juvenile delinquency cases. The choice of types of cases is premeditated, and is based on their specific character. Juvenile delinquency cases are special in terms of their subjects (children and adolescence) and aims to be achieved (the welfare of the child/adoles...

Investigating a crime has always intrigued people over the course of time thanks to the creative television. Understanding a human's brain is a tough job and is even more challenging when it comes to a mentally unstable one. Like any other domain psychology when plays its part in a legal area is termed as Forensic Psychology. Crime scene experts ha...

Canadian clinical forensic psychologists complete rigorous clinical training, yet their scope of practice is limited compared to clinical forensic psychologists in other countries. Specifically, Canadian psychologists typically do not conduct fitness to stand trial or criminal responsibility evaluations due to a stipulation in the Criminal Code of...

Semestre: 1ero A ORIENTACIÓN ACTIVIDAD EVALUATIVA N°4 Respuesta de preguntas sobre artículo REVISTA MEDICINA LEGAL DE COSTA RICA ISSN 2215-5287 4 El cauce epistémico de la Psicología Forense The epistemic course of Forensic Psychology Pérez Martínez, Armenio 1 ; Rodríguez Fernández, Aimara 2

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the application of psychology to the investigation of cold cases. The paper reviews the development of the discipline of operational psychology and reviews the role of the Behavioural Science Unit in assisting with cold case investigations within New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach: The paper...

The article presents the results of the development of the main terms of the forensic psychological analysis of information materials. At the current stage the author suggests the definitions of twelve terms, including the subject of this type of examination, its object, tasks, and methods. She also defines “information materials” as a collective,...

The prevalence of traditional bullying victimization has been estimated at around 36%, while that of cyberbullying has been estimated at 15%. The victimization of bullying brings with it harm to mental health that must be compensated for, after a forensic evaluation, by the aggressor or legal guardian. Thus, a meta-analytic review was undertaken wi...

This paper reflects the views of Catholic safeguarding coordinators (SCs) with regard to the inclusion of the polygraph in forensic psychological risk assessments that they have commissioned. The contents are derived from feedback forms sought of these instructing parties, relating to fifteen priests referred for assessment by SCs from eight differ...

We review the state of forensic mental health assessment. The field is in much better shape than in the past; however, significant problems of quality remain, with much room for improvement. We provide an overview of forensic psychology's history and discuss its possible future, with multiple audiences in mind. We distill decades of scholarship fro...

Forensic psychology requires maintaining the scientific rigor of its practice to contribute to the clarification of the facts that are of interest in legal contexts. To the extent that greater objectivity is guaranteed in the study of the psychological components of aggressors and victims, it contributes more effectively to the administration of re...

La psicología forense requiere mantener el rigor científico de su práctica para aportar al esclarecimiento de los hechos que son de interés en contextos jurídicos. En la medida que se garantice mayor objetividad en el estudio de los componentes psicológicos de los agresores y las víctimas, se contribuye de manera más efectiva en la administración d...

A case of suicide carried out on a holiday (Sunday) at the workplace. While the widow and daughters defend that their situation of widowhood and orphanhood derive from an accident at work, the company and the insurer defend that there is no direct causal link between the suicide and the exercise of their work activity. Through the report of the tec...

Little knowledge exists on how evaluators in child custody and child maltreatment cases are informed by guidelines, the kinds of qualifications required and the types of training provided in different countries. The purpose of this paper is to provide an international preliminary comparison on how child custody and child maltreatment risk assessmen...

In various countries, forensic scientists have begun to express their expert opinion in terms of the likelihood of observing the evidence under the primary and under an alternative hypothesis (i.e., the likelihood-ratio approach). This development is often confined to technical domains such as fingerprint analyses. In forensic psychological experti...

In view of the urgency of solving expert tasks resulting from the application of the new norms of the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of Russia in order to protect the interests of the state and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security (Article 280.3 of the...

Revised version: A particularly pressing problem in the correctional psychology domain is the failure to ask questions about what the targets of explanatory theories should be, and in light of this failure, researchers have arguably spent too much time constructing misdirected explanations. In this paper this issue is addressed. First, we briefly d...

Forensic Psychology is the branch of psychology focused on the production and application of psychological principles to the legal process including competency, validity of defenses based on mental health behavior, predicting violent behavior, assessing injury and child custody1 . Forensic Psychology has evolved in the United States since 2001 when...

Victim is defined as a person who has been harmed, wronged about something. People experience victimization in many ways in daily life. Victimization is a concept that needs to be handled from a very broad perspective since it covers many factors such as its existence, effect, being individually or in group nature. For this reason, victimology, a s...

Symptom feigning and malingering should be evaluated in forensic contexts due to their important socio-economic consequences. Despite this, to date, there is little research in Spain that evaluates its prevalence. The aim of this study was to investigate this issue using the perception of the general population, students, and professionals of medic...

Background: In 2011 Mrs A assaulted two people, one who died. In the hours prior to the attack she made multiple attempts to gain help including attending accident and emergency, contact with an inpatient service and the police. Subsequent investigation highlighted that her risk was not well documented or understood. Objective: This quality impr...

This book describes classic theories about offender profiling based on psychological research. The authors summarize the latest decades of international research and also reports on a self-developed profiling model based on personality, which aims to streamline future predictions and interpretations of the approach of unknown perpetrators. In the p...

A presente dissertação surge no âmbito do curso de mestrado em Ciências Policiais, área de especialização em Criminologia e Investigação Criminal do Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna. O profiling criminal, associado à disciplina da Psicologia Forense, é uma técnica auxiliar na investigação criminal bastante utilizada no d...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a prevalent condition with major implications for both society as a whole and on an individual level. The progression from MCI to dementia as part of the Alzheimer’s continuum has been widely studied. This progression is considered as an intermediate clinical stage from normal aging for many individuals before mee...

We provide aggregate data about income, demographics, and life experiences of women and men practicing clinical-forensic psychology primarily in the United States (N = 376). We examine how these variables relate to one another, as well as how gender demographics of the field have changed over time. The average hourly rate charged by psychologists f...

This study analysed the themes of researches published in Pakistan. For the purpose, Pakistan Journal of Psychology (PJP) was selected as a representative of Pakistan’s research in the discipline of psychology. Researches published during 1995 to 2006 were selected for this study. This study analyses the titles of the papers. Titles of 94 studies f...

Introduction. Aggressive behavior of children and adolescents in the educational environment should be assessed differentially depending on the nature of its manifestation and the age of the student. Extreme variants of aggression, expressed in attacks on educational institutions, are multifactorial in nature and combine auto- and hetero-aggressive...

Forensic psychological examination as a special procedural action,clearly regulated by law, the main purpose is to obtain an expert opinion.Examination is carried out in situations when there is a need to applyhighly specialized psychological knowledge to address issues that ariseduring the investigation of a crime.Of particular importance is the p...

Presentation given June 15, 2022 at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology conference in Solihull, UK.

Competency to stand trial, is a legal term that refers to the competence that enables a defendant to be involved in the legal process related to a crime against him. (Mossman et al, 2007). The aforesaid notion emerged during the "Dusky v. The United States" case, and correspondingly, it attained some standards. Although various studies proposed dif...

The psychological assessment of recidivism and dangerousness aims to provide subsidies to legal operators on the possibility of an individual to repeat criminal offenses. In the present study, a systematic review of Portuguese-language articles was carried out in the “SciELO”, “Lilacs” and “Periódicos Capes” databases to identify available instrume...

The lay nature of the judge before the forensic sciences makes the Colombian criminal evidentiary system, according to judicial practice, determine the epistemic reliability of the expert evidence method based on an enunciative judgment of the expert’s professional and scientific credentials; which consolidates a crisis of evidentiary assessment of...

This study aims to discuss the main emerging themes in reflective groups on adoption developed through a research project and university extension program. We carried out participant observation in three group cycles for prospective adopters and three cycles for adoptive mothers and fathers. In the groups' meetings, we found five main themes with p...

Abstract: Although children are at the forefront of the groups exposed to crime, it is noteworthy that the news of children involved in crime in digital games with violent content has increased recently. When the literature is evaluated, there is very little data on violence against children in cyberspace compared to the data on children exposed to...

Forming bonds in adoption is a complex process, with moments of emotional fragility for adults and for children and adolescents, but services to support families in the post-adoption period are still scarce. International studies point to the need for support felt by families in the process of adoption and Adoption Support Groups (GAA, in Portugues...

The present article addresses the use of various psychological assessment measures (i.e., trauma and personality inventories) in Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) evaluations. More specifically, the present article discusses evaluation procedures used to assess symptoms of BWS and associated symptoms as they relate to criminal proceedings when a woman...

The article deals with the issue of the terminology used to define different phenomena of illegal sexual interaction through indirect communication – via electronic means, including the Internet. There is a certain ambiguity of some concepts and terms used in the context of sexual abuse against children and of the violation of their sexual integrit...

The article outlines the legal, theoretical, and methodological framework of forensic psychological research of information materials on cases of violation of minors’ sexual integrity committed using information and telecommunication networks. Based on the expert analysis of legal norms, psychological theoretical and expert study of the phenomena b...

A particularly pressing problem in the correctional psychology domain is the failure to ask questions about what the targets of explanatory theories should be, and in light of this failure, researchers have spent too much time constructing misdirected explanations. In this paper this issue is addressed. First, we briefly describe the aims and diffe...

Forensic psychological evaluations and expert witness testimony have only been permitted in self-defense cases for the past 30 years, beginning after laws were changed to permit battered women (BW) to protect themselves. These evaluations aid BW in negotiating pleas or arguing self-defense during trial, with varying degrees of success. This explora...

This project was submitted for the fulfilment of the course - 'Introduction to Forensic Psychology' to Dr Jayasankara Reddy, Department of Psychology, as part of the Bachelor of Arts degree, Christ (Deemed To Be University).

Criminal investigators, scientists, mental health experts, and the media have always studied serial killings. Since Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s, and even today, attempts have been made to understand the complex issues surrounding the investigation of serial murders and the motives for these horrific acts. The topics of serial killings are att...

Background: Credibility assessment in Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) poses a major challenge for forensic psychology. The lack of evidence supporting the determination of the real occurrence of the abuse requires additional approaches to assess credibility. The purpose of this research is to explore the existence of psychosocial factors associated with t...

We outline and detail eight best practices that should be considered to evaluate the rigor and value of a forensic psychological assessment by drawing on decades of scholarship from and about fundamental basic science and forensic science, clinical and forensic psychology, and legal evidence admissibility. The key considerations include: (1) Founda...

Objective:Knowing who consumes a substance, in what form a substance is consumed, with which substances it is consumed with, the frequency of use, the effects it creates on the user and expectations from the use significantly affects the effectiveness of the fight against these substances. In this context, with this social descriptive study, it was...

1. Forensic and criminal psychology do not explain the etiology or the causal nature of a death that occurs under unusual circumstances. Legal and forensic medical experts alone bear sole responsibility for this. 2. Initially, forensic and criminal psychology cannot determine what type of mental illness the subject is suffering from at the exact mo...

In this paper, we introduce the Polish adaptation of the Revised NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Investigative Interview Protocol (2014). The protocol is an evidence-based method for interviewing child witnesses and crime victims. Compared with the Standard NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol (2008), the revised...

Each child develops for nature his/her own style, but, in early stages of his/her life parenting guidance might the difference in both positive and negative ways. Is axiomatic that we are living in a society that trend to be most and more anomist in which societal rules are inversed, and for the point of view of forensic psychology, understand the...