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The American Psychology- Law Society, Division 41 of the American Psychological Association, is an inter-disciplinary organization devoted to scholarship, practice, and public service in psychology and law. Please use this Web site to learn more about AP-LS and the interaction between psychology and law.
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In the News: What Attorneys Need to Know About the Cal. Supreme Court’s Important Ruling on Animation Admissibility (8/10 from Cogent Legal Blog)
In the News: N.J. Supreme Court imposing sweeping changes in crime witness testimony (7/23 from New Jersey On-Line (nj.com))
In the News: Female Terrorists' Bios Belie Stereotypes, Study Finds (5/15 APA Press Release)
In the News: Federal Judges Give Disparate Sentences: Study (3/4 from The Huffington Post)
In the News: Judges don't have to screen witnesses, court rules (1/11 from USA Today)
In the News: The Single Witness and the Single Eyewitness (1/11 from ACS Blog)
In the News: The Due Process Clause as a Code of Evidence (1/11 from Crime and Consequences)
In the News: Study unveils word patterns of psychopaths (10/15 from Toronto Sun)
In the News: Police warned about rising risk of false confessions (10/8 from The Guardian)
In the News: Changes to Police Lineup Procedures Cut Eyewitness Mistakes, Study Says (9/18 from New York Times)
In the News: Memories you cannot swear by (9/15 from Sydney Morning Herald)
In the News: Forensic psychology prevents miscarriages of justice … and memory (9/7 from The Conversation)
In the News: Backwards and forwards: A modern approach to interviewing witnesses of crimes may make things worse (9/3 from The Economist)
In the News: Partner Violence Can Damage Victim’s Mental Health (8/31 from PsychCentral)
In the News: Parent killers share traits, experts say (7/22 from Sun-Sentinel)
In the News: Freeing the Unjustly Imprisoned: Innocence Project Affiliates Flourish, Many Tied to Universities (7/8 from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education)
In the News: Casey Anthony and the CSI effect (7/7 from Washington Times)
In the News: On murder and social media: Casey Anthony’s jury consultant speaks (7/5 from Lawyers USA)
In the News: Leading researcher 'not surprised' by Supreme Court decision on video games (7/4 from Iowa State Daily)
In the News: California ban on sale of 'violent' video games to children rejected (6/27 from CNN.com)
In the News: Policeman who claimed he didn't see assault may have fallen victim to 'inattentional blindness' (6/9 from Daily Mail)
In the News: Loughner case hinges on uncertain science (5/28 from Seattle Times)
In the News: Expert Panel: Weighing The Value Of A Test For Psychopaths (5/26 from NPR)
In the News: How useful are police composite sketches? (4/25 from Philadelphia Inquirer)
In the News: Maybe Just Drunk Enough to Remember (4/23 from New York Times)
In the News: Illegal Downloading Is OK, College Kids Say (4/13 from LiveScience.com)
In the News: Experts arrest TV myths about how to solve crimes (4/11 from Chicago Courier-News)
In the News: Cutting down on cases of mistaken identity (4/6 from The Independent (London))
In the News: Officials seek to replace Missouri's flawed racial profiling data (3/28 from stltoday.com)
In the News: Getting guilty right (3/27 from boston.com)
In the News: Attorneys go online to vet jurors (3/26 from Chicago Tribune)
In the News: Proposed Law Would Change Police Photo Lineups (3/21 from WKMG Orlando)
In the News: Are sexual offense laws too harsh? And do they work? (3/4 from physorg.com)
In the News: Building trust with cooperative witnesses in a crime investigation (3/1 from scienceblog.com)
In the News: Clues May Reveal When a Person Is Faking Remorse (2/11 from Business Week)
In the News: Instant Relief Leads to False Confessions (2/17 from Futurity.org)
In the News: Psychology and the Law: A Special Issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science (2/17 from Association for Psychological Science )
In the News: 'Was Doing' Versus 'Did': Verbs Matter When Judging Other People's Intentions (2/16 from PRnewswire.com)
In the News: Clues May Reveal When a Person Is Faking Remorse (2/11 from U.S. News & World Report)
In the News: Mental health cuts opposed (2/2 from Las Vegas Review-Journal)
In the News: Jury deadlocked over Hamlet's mock murder trial (2/1 from Fox News)
In the News: Mother's mental health could be key to motive — and her fate in kids' murders (2/1 from tampabay.com)
In the News: The psychology of a Jared Loughner (1/18 from CNN)
In the News: Forensic psychology and fighting web threats (1/13 from ITP.net)
In the News: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore (1/11 from Huffington Post)
In the News: The decline of the serial killer (1/6 from Slate.com)
In the News: Researchers develop better criminal composites (12/27 from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
In the News: Explaining the Healing Power of Prayer (12/16 from TIME)
In the News: Men with multiple wives not the only ones who abuse: Expert at polygamy trial (12/16 from TheProvince3)
In the News: Terrorists put psychiatric evaluations to the test (12/14 from National Post)
In the News: Coercive Habits Lead to Intimate Partner Abuse (12/8 from UA News)
In the News: Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law (12/5 from Austin Statesman)
In the News: Polygamy trial begins with battle of experts (11/30 from Metro News (Canada))
In the News: Forensic Psychiatrists Vote No on Proposed Paraphilias (11/16 from Psychiatric Times)
In the News: Terrorists put psychiatric evaluations to the test (11/14 from National Post)
In the News: DNA exonerations prove eyewitnesses make mistakes (11/14 from Orlando Sentinel)
In the News: Court hears arguments on violent video games (11/2 from The Washington Post)
In the News: “Common sense” and violence (11/2 from SCOTUSblog)
In the News: Improving child sexual assault trial outcomes (11/2 from HealthCanal.com)
In the News: Court to rule on child interviews (10/13 from SCOTUSblog)
In the News: Iowa Studies the Dollar Cost of Murder (9/28 from WOWT)
In the News: Caffeine consumption an issue in Ky. murder trial (9/21 from Associated Press)
In the News: N.J. Assembly committee considers Christie's decision to delay law for mentally ill (9/16 from NJ.com)
In the News: Confessing to Crime, but Innocent (9/13 from NY Times)
In the News: Testimony on Inaccuracies of Witness ID Continues in Leon Davis Case (9/8 from The Ledger)
In the News: Teresa Lewis, Mentally Disabled Woman, To Be Executed In Virginia This Month (9/7 from The Huffington Post)
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Membership
AP-LS encourages APA members, graduate and undergraduate students, and persons in related fields to consider membership in the Division. APA membership is not required for membership in the American Psychology-Law Society. Click Here for more information about joining AP-LS
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Welcome from our President
Welcome to the American Psychology-Law Society/APA Division 41 Website! We are excited about our website and its array of resources, and we hope you find what you need to promote your interests in psychology and law. If you are not a member of APLS/Division 41, consider joining this group of dedicated scholars and practitioners. If you are a member, consider taking an active role in the group through volunteering for one of our committees. We need your ideas and involvement to stay vibrant. Let us know how we can serve you.
Think about coming to our annual meeting. This year’s meeting is in Portland, Oregon from March 6-9, 2013. At this meeting, we will have presentations and discussions that cover a wide range of topics in psychology and law and provides an atmosphere of open exchange and spirited discussion that has long been a hallmark of APLS. Most of those attending for the first time find the meeting invigorating, and a chance to appreciate the full breadth of psychology-law research and practice. For students, it is a chance to encounter the researchers and practitioners who have made the psychology-law respected and valued. For early-career psychologists, it is a chance to network with others in the field. For practitioners, it is an opportunity to keep up with advances in the field, and to learn about changes in assessment techniques from the researchers themselves.
Announcements
The 2013 AP-LS Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon on March 7-9, 2013. The conference program for the Conference can be viewed and downloaded as a PDF file by clicking here. There is also a conference mobile app. View the conference program, search for particular speakers, mark your favorite presentations ahead of time, tweet about the conference. (#apls2013) After March 1st the app will be available at http://m.twoppy.com/APLS2013/
The 2013 APA Convention will be held in Honolulu, HI on July 31-August 4, 2013. The Call for Papers is available on this page.
The latest AP-LS Newsletter for Winter 2013 has been released (on 2/24). Get it here. Past newsletters are archived here.
Help Wanted! Several committee and service openings, available to AP-LS members, have been posted on a page here. We are currently looking for nominations for future conference co-chairs.
The House of Legal Psychology – "a unique consortium of the three centres of excellence in Europe on Legal Psychology" has a new web site: http://legalpsychology.eu/
The SPSP Social Psychology and Law Pre-Conference will be held on Thursday, January 17, 2013, in New Orleans, LA.
The Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition (SARMAC) invites submissions for its 10th Biennial meeting to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 26-29, 2013. To make a submission, visit http://www.sarmac.org/conferences Deadline for submissions is December 12th, 2012.
Upcoming deadlines:
- Early Career Professional Grant-in-Aid (October 15)
The 2012 AP-LS Conference was held at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico March 14-17, 2012.
The final version of the revised Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology was adopted by APA Council of Representatives on August 3, 2011 and is posted here. Past drafts and the current Guidelines are archived here.