Initial Psychology and the Law Assignment

Initial Psychology and the Law Assignment

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Initial Impressions of Psychology and the Law Assignment

“Initial Impressions of Psychology and the Law” Please respond to the following:

• Identify two (2) common types of mental health problems, as well as two (2) common causes of mental health problems (use your text or the Internet to help you).
• Taking this information, I want you to choose ONE  of the 3 cases listed on page 30 of the text.  Use the information from chapter 2 to help you answer the question associated with your case.  So for instance, if you are considering the case for parole, you want to consider the factors of risk and violence assessment.
• Please remember to review my discussion rubric so that you understand what I am looking for in these discussions.

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Legal psychology involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law. Legal psychologists typically take basic social and cognitive principles and apply them to issues in the legal system such as eyewitness memory, jury decision-making, investigations, and interviewing. The term “legal psychology” has only recently come into usage, primarily as a way to differentiate the experimental focus of legal psychology from the clinically-oriented forensic psychology.

Together, legal psychology and forensic psychology form the field more generally recognized as “psychology and law”. Following earlier efforts by psychologists to address legal issues, psychology and law became a field of study in the 1960s as part of an effort to enhance justice, though that originating concern has lessened over time.^[1] The multidisciplinary American Psychological Association‘s Division 41, the American Psychology-Law Society, is active with the goal of promoting the contributions of psychology to the understanding of law and legal systems through research, as well as providing education to psychologists in legal issues and providing education to legal personnel on psychological issues. Further, its mandate is to inform the psychological and legal communities and the public at large of current research, educational, and service in the area of psychology and law.^[2] There are similar societies in Britain and Europe.