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Psychology and law Crucial theoretical and applicative problems
Psychology and law Crucial theoretical and applicative problems

Author(s): Jan M. Stanik
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: psychology and law; forensic psychology; psychologist — an expert witness; a psychological court expertise; ethical rules in forensic psychology

Summary/Abstract: The author generally reviews crucial problems which, in his opinion, appear in a psychology‑law relationship, and formulates his own theoretical theses against this background. Thus, he discusses (1) the relationships of psychology with law, (2) a psycho- logical and legal approach to behaviour analysis, (3) a methodological perspective of what is objective, general and idiosyncratic in psychology, (4) a notion of “specific knowledge” as a criterion and reason for appointing expert witnesses, (5) the subject and tasks of forensic psychology, (6) some methodological and crucial problems of a psychologist as an expert witness, as well as (7) ethical‑professional problems of an expert witness psychologist.

  • Issue Year: 37/2013
  • Issue No: ENG 2
  • Page Range: 5-97
  • Page Count: 93
  • Language: English
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