Forensic psychology

Forensic psychology is area of study within the fields of clinical, counseling and school psychology. The professional practice of forensic psychology became a recognized specialty by the American Psychology Association, APA, in 2001 (“Recognized Specialties and Proficiencies,” n.d.). Many graduate schools offer Masters and Ph.D. or Psy.D. Programs; however, in order to be a licensed forensic psychologist, you must have a doctoral-level degree. Drexel University, John Jay College of Criminal…

it for something I’m interested and skilled in and not for the paycheck. I then switched to a psychology…

Forensic psychology is a sub-domain of clinical psychology, in which aspects of clinical psychology is applied to areas of law, including civil, criminal, correctional, and police contexts and in special types of consultations where the forensic psychologist is not answerable to the person they are interviewing, but rather the legal entity consulting the forensic psychologist, or psychiatrist. Forensic psychologists follow the same ethical code as do other branches of psychology, however they…

The most interesting area of psychology to me is forensic child psychology. I actually didn’t learn about it until the summer while binge watching a TV show and I heard the job title. I knew for about a year and a half that I wanted to major in psychology and work with children. I always wanted to talk to the troubled, impoverished children. This subfield of psychology caught my attention because it’s all related to the court cases or talking to children already in prison. I wanted to work with…

Psychology ranges in many different ways. You may be interested teaching, therapy, or sports and psychology touches all of those things. Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. To me, psychology is much more than that. It is a huge field including all about human behavior, the way the brain works, business, law, stress and so on. My interests in this vast area include forensic and clinical psychology. Both are very similar and forensic psychologists tend to be clinical…

I am applying for forensic psychology as this has always interested me ever since I was at the age of 16. Ever since I heard about the Fred West and Rosemary West case, I have since then been intrigued on how their minds were functioning at the time, what made them commit such a horrific crim? Ever since that particular murder case I have been researching into more and more famous serial killers around the world. Choosing this course that I have applied for will help me in developing into the…

Juvenile Forensic Psychology The article I selected is call “The Impact of Juveniles’ Ages and Levels of Psychosocial Maturity on Judges’ Opinions about Adjudicative Competence” (Cox, 2012). The author focus on this research is to investigate whether the defendant’s ages and levels of psychosocial maturity would affect judge’s ratings of juveniles in a juvenile and criminal court (Cox, 2012). The method they use on this research they mail 48 judges from 25 states. The cases in which a state did…

study, I settled on the career of Forensic Psychology. At the start of this journey I remember thinking that I would like to be a detective, but I quickly realized that I was more interested in studying the psychological side of the crimes and drawing my own conclusions based on my knowledge of the human brain. This has led me to my seemingly ideal profession of forensic psychology. Forensic psychology is the application of the science and the profession of psychology to issues relating to law…

Profiling is one of the many tools that forensic psychologists have at their disposal in order to assist the legal system and law enforcement in arresting and prosecuting criminals. Profiling is done in two different ways: deductive and inductive. Through the deductive method one starts with a broad theory or hypothesis and then breaks that theory down to come to a conclusion based on evidence. The inductive method is the opposite. It takes observations and examples and uses them to conclude…

False Confessions and Wrong Convictions in Forensic Psychology Americans have long historical records of false convictions and wrongful convictions. A number of academicians, journalists, researchers, lawyers as well as activists have attempted to document numerous accounts of the cases where in the innocent have been convicted owing to false confessions and wrong convictions and elaborated upon the reasons as well as their ramifications (Borchard,1932; Radin,1964; Scheck et al., 2000). The…