A multidisciplinary academic review of:
Key Features
- Increases the courts’ knowledge about areas of psychology that have been debunked, have advanced, or have been refined by the scientific community
- Covers issues in psychological forensics, namely: Profiling, Psychological Defenses, Mitigation, Eyewitness Testimony/Identification, Child Testimony, Repressed Memories, False Confessions and Moral Panic
- Trains prosecuting attorneys about the present state of the forensic psychology, to avoid relying only on legal precedent and will not present flawed science to the court
- Provides defense attorneys the knowledge necessary to competently defend where forensic psychology plays a part in a prosecution
- Arms innocence projects and appellate attorneys with the latest information to challenge convictions
- Uses case studies to simplify issues in forensic psychology for the legal profession
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