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- present empirical work that makes a significant contribution to the application of psychological knowledge to public policy or the law; and examine public policy and legal issues relating to the conduct of psychology and related disciplines (e.g., human subjects, protection policies; informed consent procedures).
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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law® provides a forum in which to critically evaluate the contributions of psychology and related disciplines (hereinafter psychology) to public policy and legal issues and vice versa.
Shocked at miscarriages of justice and looking to understand offender, investigator, and justice-system player behavior, society is looking to legal psychology for both explanations and solutions. This is what we wanted our issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science to address.
This book provides firsthand accounts by scholars and clinicians of their early contributions to the field of psychology and law in the decade following the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society in 1969.
The issue begins with two articles that describe social and developmental psychological science surrounding fundamental attitudes, beliefs, and understanding that profoundly affect law and public policy.
In some cases, the development of the law itself is based upon psychology. Social psychology emphasizes that self-regulatory motivations can also be activated if people believe that they have an obligation to conform to the law.
