A Century of Psychology and Law: Successes, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

James R. P. Ogloff

doi:10.1002/9781444395150.ch15

A Century of Psychology and Law: Successes, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

James R. P. Ogloff

Psychology

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	362-385
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	9781405193313
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395150.ch15
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2011

Keywords

Century of psychology and law - successes, challenges and future opportunities
Conventional wisdom, field of psychology and law - marked by Munsterberg's book, On the Witness Stand
Law and policy, rationality of empirical outcomes - not always resulting in rational policy development
Legal psychology, umbrella term for field - areas of focus within field, referred to more specifically
Legal realism view, in late 1920s and early 1930s - deep and lasting impact on law, legal realism ceasing to be a force by the 1950s
Munsterberg's seminal work, On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime (1908) - contemporary field of psychology and law, passing the first century mark
Rise(s) of the field of legal psychology
So-called "second generation" of risk assessment - identification of appropriate variables for prediction of violence, culminating in development of "actuarial" risk assessment tools
SPJ approach, increasing predictive validity of violence risk judgments - Douglas, Ogloff, and Hart (2003), comparing predictive validity of HCR-20 violence risk instrument
Violence risk assessment - discordance between law's expectations, and psychologists and psychiatrists predicting risk, accurately

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