Psychology has contributed to the knowledge base and available assessment and intervention methods in the three following areas of child protection: (a) interviewing children to
Policymaking is complex and incorporates many factors and voices. Rigorous empirical evidence is one potential factor in this process, but the degree to which it
As guilty pleas are on the rise worldwide, we need to invest more effort into understanding what drives this phenomenon. This is the bottom line
Psychology has had several influences on prisons and imprisonment. This article reflects on four of these. This is a summary of a recently published article
Cultural differences and age may impact scores on the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) among Spanish-speaking adults from Latin America; therefore, caution must be used
Undergraduate resident assistants’ reporting behaviors are determined by knowledge of university sexual assault reporting policy, trust in these support systems and perceptions of mandatory reporting.
The current study examined the influence of pretrial publicity on mock-jurors’ guilt decisions, perceptions of the defendant, memories, and evidence interpretation and found that pretrial
The combination of two risk measures, the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) and the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA), has been effective in assessing
Mock jurors were randomly assigned to view either nongruesome photographs or gruesome photographs in color or black and white. Color gruesome photographs, compared to nongruesome
As a resident assistant (RA), a mandatory reporting role under Title IX, the likelihood to report and refer fellow student sexual assault varied, depending on
The addition of a “something else” alternative to forced-choice questions in forensic interviews with children does not increase the accuracy of answers and does not