L1 Forensics Flashcards
Forensic Psychology
Application of methods, theories and concepts of psych in the legal system (relation of criminality to mental illness
(Work in gov, treatm, court, teaching facilities and are self employed)
(Recognized by APA in 2001)
Mens Rhea
Guilty mind
Committed lawful acts willfully/purposefully
Criminal investigations
Use understanding of human behavior to make psy profiles (profilers) + dedice charact of individual
Men
Wilhelm Wundt - father of psych
Musterberg - applied psych to law
Ppl vs Hawthorne - 1940 psy test as exp witn (psychotestimony allowed)
Jenkins vs us - psychot admitted to determine criminal responsibility
Theraputic Junspudence
Use of social science to study the extent to which a legal rule/practice promotes the psy + phy well being of the ppl it affects
(how rulings impact induvid involved emo + mentally)
Stare decisis
courts look to past/similar issues to guide decisions
(makes them resistant to change though)
Doctrine
focuses on combination/no of pieces of info with conclusions (ie stare decisis)`
Law
Authoritative (how ppl should beh; regulatory)
Adversarial (rendering justice; 2 op sides to achieve victory)
Ideographic (individual cases/specific)
Definitive (to be certain; guilty or not)
Forensics
Empirical (how ppl actual beh; explanatory)
Experimental (obj re; finding truth)
Nomoethic (broad theories that can be generalized)
Probalistic (likelihood of occurance)
Theory
Scientific principle to explain phenomena
Ie beh theories:
BF Skinner (ppl change beh based on reactions acquired and retained; retained if rewarded, discarded if not)
Bandura (tabula rasa; not born violent, model and observe environmental and social/media interactions)
Freud (psychodynamic; id, instict, instant gratification; superego, conscious moral compas; ego, mediates between the two… failure of superego leads to beh and delinquency)
