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Shrinking the footprint of the criminal legal system through policies informed by psychology and neuroscience
The footprint of the legal system in the United States is expansive. Applying psychological and neuroscience research to understand or predict...
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Critical Psychology and the Brain: Rethinking Free will in the Legal Context
The article draws from critical psychology to discuss the rising debate on brain determinism and free will in the legal domain. As free will also...
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Criminal Thinking
Discussions on criminal thinking and antisocial attitudes frequently start with Yochelson and Samenow’s conceptualization of the criminal...
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Police Psychology: Book Review
Police Psychology examines the latest research in psychology applied to the criminal justice system. Paulo Barbosa Marques and Mauro Paulino...
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Student’s motivations behind not pursuing industrial/organizational psychology
Industrial organizational psychology is one of the most dynamic areas of psychology yet it is usually not the first choice of graduate students when...
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How Endogenous System Bias Can Distort Decision-Making in Criminal Justice Systems
Most judicial, regulatory, and administrative systems, at least formally, are concerned with the fairness and transparency of their decisions...
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Looking more criminal: It’s not so black and white
Prior research regarding the influence of face structure on character judgments and first impressions reveals that bias for certain face-types is...
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Law and psychology must think critically about effect sizes
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...
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Childhood maltreatment, shame, and self-esteem: an exploratory analysis of influencing factors on criminal behavior in juvenile female offenders
ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the relationships between childhood maltreatment, shame, and self-esteem among juvenile female offenders and...
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Multifaceted Nature of Criminal Behavior
This chapter delves into the multifaceted nature of criminal behavior, recognizing that it is influenced by a combination of factors that interact in...
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Case Studies in Legal Psychology Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Evidence
In some criminal cases, it is a difficult challenge to find out what happened. Fact finders will rely on different approaches ranging from intuitive...
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Ethical Issues in Media Psychology
When people think about ethical issues in the media, they usually think about talk shows. There are, however, many other areas of concern as...
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Decolonial Dynamics of Memories on the Frontier of Social Psychology
How have decolonial practices mobilized Brazilian psychology’s state of the art in the modernity/coloniality conjuncture that has become permanent in...
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Identifying criminals: No biasing effect of criminal context on recalled threat
To date, it is still unclear whether there is a systematic pattern in the errors made in eyewitness recall and whether certain features of a person...
