Concept information
Preferred term
psychology and law
Definition(s)
- Law, one of the oldest academic disciplines, plays an important role in our everyday life. Much of what law does influences people to conform to various rules, although sometimes that influence is imperceptible. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Psychology and Law]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- attitude formation and change
- attitudes and behavior
- capital punishment
- compliance with law
- confessions and interrogation
- criminal competencies
- criminal responsibility
- cultural psychology
- divorce and child custody
- edgework
- education and professional development
- evolutionary psychology
- eyewitness identification
- eyewitness memory
- forensic assessment in civil and criminal cases
- investigative psychology
- juvenile delinquency
- lie detection
- mental health law
- moral development
- neuroscience and law
- obedience
- profiling
- psychobiology of crime
- psychological and forensic assessment instruments
- psychology of criminal behavior
- psychology of dispute resolution
- psychology of juries
- psychology of policing and investigations
- psychology of punishment
- psychology of voluntary acts
- psychology of witness testimony
- psychopathy and sociopathy
- public opinion and legal consciousness
- repressed memory
- sentencing and incarceration
- symptoms and disorders relevant to forensic assessment
- therapeutic jurisprudence
- trial processes
- use of psychology in courts
- victim reactions to crime
- violence risk assessment
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-F6WJ6PD6-8
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