Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law
of the plaintiff’s vocational history is particularly important, along with an assessment of the place of the job in the person’ ...
Given the centrality of amnesia to DID, evidence of inter-identity amnesia is essential to a diagnosis. Caution is warranted whe ...
generation and compartmentalization of multiple iden- tities is manifested as an adaptive strategy that allows the individual to ...
against clinicians for either falsely diagnosing or fail- ing to diagnose the disorder. Alter identities have asked for separate ...
custody, the effects of which have been widely debated since the 1980s, appears to be relatively uncommon. Of note, custody arra ...
Most evaluations by psychologists include the use of psychological tests, although there is no standard- ization in the field co ...
on the adjustment of the children. Early findings sug- gest that economic support is more important than the amount of contact b ...
varied as the available specialty areas and their mod- els for training students. There are typically five predominant specialty ...
programs tend to be extremely competitive because a student must have the ability to complete advanced degrees in two very diffe ...
to legal issues, it was important for students to have a foundational knowledge in the area. Students should get experience in p ...
Applying for Admission to Doctoral Programs Applying for admission to doctoral programs in psy- chology and law does not require ...
provided impetus for the development of the first spe- cialist courts in Florida. The courts were believed to increase efficienc ...
established in Leeds in 1999. The basic features of DVCs operating in England and Wales include focusing on criminal (not civil) ...
determinant of case outcomes. A recent study of a DVC in Toronto found that prosecutors were seven times more likely to prosecut ...
The original DVSI was validated using two sam- ples of subjects drawn from four pilot judicial districts of the 22 in Colorado: ...
validation is currently under way using 18-month recidivism data on 3,797 defendants. Kirk R. Williams See alsoForensic Assessme ...
hypotheses of their studies they unconsciously influ- enced the participants’ behavior. The earliest of these experiments, condu ...
Further Readings Phillips, M. R., McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Cutler, B. L. (1999). Double-blind photoarray administra ...
The judge plays a dual role; on the one hand, the judge seeks to create a relationship with the defendant that increases the lik ...
“hung.” A hung jury results in a mistrial, and a retrial may be held. Most courts view a hung jury as an out- come to be avoided ...
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