week one Flashcards
1
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what is forensic psychology
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- applying methods, theories and expertise from across psychological disciplines to problems, processes, and phenomena within the criminal and civil justice system
- reflects the intersection of legal theory, procedures, and law with clinical issues, practice and ethics
1
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legal context
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- criminal court
- civil court
- youth court
- family court
2
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criminal court
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- there can be youth court in this, depending on the crime and their mental state
- does not matter if youth or adult court because assessment will be the same
3
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civil court
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- anything that is not touched on in criminal court
- ie. financial settlement, competency
4
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youth court
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- like criminal court, but they are underage
- however if crime is severe, may be tried as an adult
5
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family court
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whole different group
6
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roles in forensic psychology (from most to least frequent)
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- assessment (equal to treatment)
- treatment (equal to assessment)
- consultation
- supervision
- research
- teaching
7
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assessment
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- risk assessment
- service needs and treatment
- psychological disorders and personality
- capacity
- criminal responsibility
- injury
- custody and parenting
8
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risk assessment
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- ie. for people going on parole for risk of sexual or domestic abuse, reoffending, how bad it would be if they reoffended
9
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service needs and treatment
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what are their needs, looking at risk factors and protective plans to develop treatment plans
10
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psychological disorders and personality
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when a diagnosis is needed to determone criminal responsibility
11
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capacity
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competency to stand trial, capacity to understand their charge, capacity to take care of themselves
12
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criminal responsibility
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same thing as capacity but at the time of the crime
13
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injury
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- diagnosis, impact, cause
- most people will not have pre-injury assessment that can be compared to
- therefore, need to look at their level of functioning based on other factors (grades, observation from close ones) before and after the injury
14
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custody and parenting
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- more civil
- often about parents separating and looking for the healthiest place for children
15
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treatment
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- helps restore competence
- recovery from injury
- reduce likelihood of recidivism
- reintegrate safely into community after being found not criminally responsible
16
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consultation
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- interviewing
- investigative technique
- police negotiations
- profiling
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supervision
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- provisional psychologists (for 1600 hours)
- research assistants (collects data)
- analysts (look at profiling and criminal behaviour and do geographical profiling)
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research
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- eyewitness credibility
- deception
- witness testimony
- trial tactics
- psychology of jurors
