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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ronél Ferreira is a professor and Head of the Department of Educational psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria
SUITABLE FOR
• Students of psychology, both undergraduate and postgraduate
• Practitioners in the fields of psychology, social work, counselling and
related fields
Psychology and Law
C TREDOUX, D FOSTER, A ALLAN,
A COHEN & D WASSENAAR (EDITORS)
Psychology and law are disciplines and professions that seem to be, at first glance, quite distinct and separate – but in reality their congruences are many and varied: psychologists frequently appear in court as expert witnesses, and they often actively research topics that are directly related to law and legal practice. Similarly, lawyers and other legal professionals often face questions in their professional practice that are inherently psychological in nature.
The congruencies between psychology and law are explored in this collection of learning objectives, exercises, and reference material that addresses the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to practical topics such as crime and policing, the detection of deception and truthfulness, dangerousness and the risk of violence, and the employment of the psychologist as expert witness, it also discusses modern moral issues such as the role and treatment of child witnesses in legal proceedings, investigative psychology and psychological profiling, and the use of insanity and diminished capacity defenses.
    CONTENTS
• Introduction
• What is psychology?
• The South African legal system
• Psychological assessment for the
courts
• Crime and policing
• Assessing custody and placement of
children
• Credibility assessment
• Eyewitness testimony
• Child witnesses
• Risk assessment
• The psychologist as expert witness
• Introducing investigative psychology • Psychology and human rights
• Psychological evaluations of mental state in criminal cases
JUTA EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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Lawyers, law students, legal professionals, clinical psychologists, research psychologists, psychology students, any reader interested in the interface of the disciplines of psychology and law
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