Research Topic Links

Research in the field of psychology and law covers many topics.  The links below lead to other Web sites that provide information about topics covered in this research.

Adult Clinical/Forensic Psychology

• Medicine, Psychiatry & Forensic Expert
• The Criminal Mind (from trutv.com)
• McArthur Research Network: Mental Health and the Law
• McArthur Research Network: Mandated Community Treatment
• Police Psychology Online
• Robert Hare's Web Site devoted to the study of Psychopathy
• Violence and Mental Illness: The Facts (from SAMHSA)

Correctional Psychology

• International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology
• Opportunities in Correctional Psychology

Interpersonal & Domestic Violence

• National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - National Resource Center
• National Center for Victims of Crime
• Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative
• The National Trauma Consortium
• Witness Justice
• APA Violence Prevention Office
• Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: Research & Intervention (a bibliography)

Interrogations, Confessions & Deception Detection

• How to Detect Lies
• Polygraph Law Resource Page
• Deception blog
• Google listing of polygraph web sites
• Psychology and Crime News (blog)
• False Confession (Innocence Project)
• The Causes of Wrongful Conviction (from the Innocence Project)
• False Memory Lab (University of Arkansas)
• John E. Reid & Associates
• Criminal Law Resources: False Confessions (includes links to bibliographies)

Jury Decision Making

• American Judicature Society Jury Center Home Page (includes research summaries, bibliography, lesson plans & Capital Case Data)
• Pattern Jury Instructions page posted by the Fifth Circuit Library
• List of online Jury Instructions (from llrx.com)
• Jury Decision Making Resource Guide from the National Center for State Courts
• ForeCite's Jury Instructions

Juvenile Clinical & Developmental Psychology

• Center For The Prevention of School Violence
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

 

Mental Health Law

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Psychiatry and Law Updates
• Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform
• Mental Health Law Links (from megalaw.com)
• ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
• Links to State Mental Health Courts (from National Center for State Courts)
• Mental Health Courts Resource Guide (from National Center for State Courts)
• Summary of State Laws for Mental Health Treatment (from Treatment Advocacy Center)
• Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Mental Health Law Decisions - from LII

 

Witness Memory (Eyewitness Identification & Child Witnesses)

• Multiple bibliographies from Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso
• UNI Eyewitness Identification Laboratory 
• Innocence Lost (from PBS)
• Child Witness to Violence Project
• Asking the Tough Questions:  How To Examine a Child Witness in Sexual Abuse Cases (from The Jury Expert)