(Source: Oxford University Press)
Oxford
University Press has just published a book on the history of the interactions
between the legal field and the field of psychology.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Psychology's
formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little
in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until
several decades later. The emergence of psychology and law as a modern field of
scholarship was marked by the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society
(AP-LS) in 1969, now approaching its 50th anniversary. The scientific
foundation upon which the modern field now rests was established by a small
group of psychological researchers, legal scholars, and clinicians.
The Roots of
Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History reveals how the field developed
during the first decade following the founding of the American Psychology-Law
Society. The contributors to this edited volume, widely considered to be among
the "founders" of the field, were responsible for establishing and
nurturing many of the subfields and topics in psychology and law or forensic
psychology that flourished across the next fifty years. In each chapter, these
leaders explain in narrative form how and why the field and the Society
developed in its early years through the recounting of key professional events
in their careers during the 1970s. In some cases this was their first major
research study using psychology applied to legal issues. In others it was their
development of seminal ideas or organizational innovations that had a later
impact on the field's development. The volume chronicles how an emerging AP-LS
and field of psychology and law were shaped by these psychologists, and how
their own initial work was, in turn, shaped by the organization.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Thomas Grisso,
Ph.D, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was president of the American
Psychology-Law Society in 1990 and Executive Director of the American Board of
Forensic Psychology. He has received outstanding achievement awards from both
organizations as well as the American Psychological Association.
Stanley L.
Brodsky, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus and Scholar-in-Residence at The University
of Alabama, where has was a faculty member from 1972-2016. He was a founding
member of the American Psychology-Law Society and has received awards for
Outstanding Achievement from the American-Psychology-Law Society and the
American Association of Correctional Psychologists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of
Contents
Contributor List
Editors'
Prologue
Stanley L.
Brodsky and Thomas Grisso
Chapter 1: The
Evolution of Psychology and Law
Thomas Grisso
Section I:
Psychological Science and Law
Chapter 2:
Eyewitness Testimony: An Eyewitness Report
Elizabeth F.
Loftus
Chapter 3:
Applying Social Psychology to Law and the Legal Process
Michael J. Saks
Chapter 4: Jury
Research
Shari Seidman
Diamond
Chapter 5:
Mental Health Law and the Seeds of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
David B. Wexler
Chapter 6:
Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility, and Civil Commitment
Stephen J. Morse
Chapter 7:
Framing, Institutionalizing, and Nurturing Research in Psychology and Law
Bruce D. Sales
Section II:
Assessment, Interventions, and Practice in Legal Contexts
Chapter 8:
Forensic Mental Health Services and Competence to Stand Trial
Ronald Roesch
Chapter 9:
Predictions of Violence
John Monahan
Chapter 10:
Juveniles' Psycholegal Capacities
Thomas Grisso
Chapter 11:
Correctional Psychology
Stanley L. Brodsky
Chapter 12: The
Founding and Early Years of the American Board of Forensic Psychology
Florence W.
Kaslow
Chapter 13:
Community Psychology, Public Policy, and Children
N. Dickon
Reppucci
Epilogue:
Psychology and Law at AP-LS' Fiftieth Anniversary
Thomas Grisso
and Stanley L. Brodsky
Index of Names
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