# Forensic Psychology

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Category: Psychology
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:05.259Z
Tags: psychology, forensic

## Summary

A field that exists because legal questions about credibility, competence, intent, and risk are also psychological questions — and because the courts, left to themselves, have been historically bad at answering them. Key sections include: Forensic Psychology.; Opening Where the mind meets the court.; Chapter I The founding text.; Chapter II From Münsterberg to the modern field.; Chapter III Quantico and the profilers.; Chapter IV Does profiling work?; Chapter V The British alternative.; Chapter VI The eyewitness revolution.; Chapter VII The repressed-memory crisis.; Chapter VIII Why innocent people confess..

## Slide Outline

1. Forensic Psychology.
2. Opening Where the mind meets the court.
3. Chapter I The founding text.
4. Chapter II From Münsterberg to the modern field.
5. Chapter III Quantico and the profilers.
6. Chapter IV Does profiling work?
7. Chapter V The British alternative.
8. Chapter VI The eyewitness revolution.
9. Chapter VII The repressed-memory crisis.
10. Chapter VIII Why innocent people confess.
11. Chapter IX Competency to stand trial.
12. Chapter X The insanity defence.
13. Chapter XI Predicting violence.
14. Chapter XII The psychopathy construct.
15. Chapter XIII How juries decide.
16. Chapter XIV Selecting a jury.
17. Chapter XV Interviewing children.
18. Chapter XVI Lie detection — a hard problem.
19. Chapter XVII Beyond the criminal docket.
20. Chapter XVIII Selecting and supporting officers.
21. Chapter XIX Inside the prison.
22. Chapter XX Adolescents and the courts.
23. Chapter XXI The expert witness, after Daubert.
24. Chapter XXII Detecting feigned impairment.
25. Chapter XXIII Intimate-partner violence in the law.
26. Chapter XXIV Sex-offender assessment.
27. Chapter XXV Twenty-five works.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII The state of forensic psychology.
30. Chapter XXVIII The ethical core.
31. Chapter XXIX For the reader entering the field.
32. The end of the deck.

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