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Legal socialization is the process of developing attitudes toward rules, laws, and the legal system. Legal socialization research studies this...

Despite disagreement about its exact contours, most conceptualizations of psychopathic personality disorder emphasize traits of emotional detachment, including callousness, failure...

Broadly defined, a risk factor for juvenile offending is any experience, circumstance, or personal characteristic that increases the probability that...

Prior to interrogating a suspect, police officers must inform individuals of their legal rights. Mental health professionals are frequently called...

Although the early juvenile justice system did not require that adolescent defendants be able to understand and participate in their...

Under Anglo-American law, the right of testation refers to the freedom to choose how one’s property and other possessions will...

Personal injury and emotional distress claims are civil court matters in which psychologists may become involved in several ways. A...

Parens patriae translates from the Latin as “father of the people” and is the legal principle that allows the state...

According to John Bowlby, the propensity to establish intimate connections to particular individuals is a basic component of human nature;...

Forensic assessments must evaluate systematically the accuracy and forthrightness of individuals referred for evaluation of psycholegal issues. Among different response...

Ionizing radiation in sufficient dosage has been known to disrupt prenatal development almost since the discovery of X-rays. Case reports...

Financial capacity (FC) is a medical-legal construct that represents the ability to independently manage one’s financial affairs in a manner...

IQ tests provide us with a quantitative measure of intelligence, known as the Intelligence Quotient (IQ for short). This type...

Psychopathic personality disorder comprises a distinct collection of deviant affective, interpersonal, and behavioral features. Results of psychopathy testing can sway...

In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful. ALL PRAISE BE to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, Most beneficent,...

Disparate treatment and disparate impact cases involve actions on the part of an employer that a plaintiff worker claims are...

Child custody issues can arise for a number of reasons, including parental death, unmarried motherhood, and the severance of parental...

Disability insurance and workers’ compensation both concern illness or injury in the context of work. These terms are sometimes (erroneously)...

The term Judaism generally connotes the religion practiced by the Jewish people. Many, however, ascribe to it a much broader...

The weapon focus effect is the tendency for witnesses who observe an armed criminal to direct their attention toward the...

Voice recognition, or “earwitness” identification, has not received the amount of research or public interest that eyewitness identification has received...

The first kibbutz, a cooperative communal farming settlement called Degonia, was established in 1909 near the Sea of Galilee. It...

Verbal overshadowing (VO) refers to situations in which describing a nonverbal experience, such as the appearance of a face, impairs...

Whether or not a child is “ready” for school has been a topic of considerable debate. In the past, maturational views...

Unconscious transference is a memory error that occurs when an eyewitness to a crime misidentifies a familiar but innocent person...

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction was founded as a not-for-profit corporation in 1947 by pioneering...

The ability to accurately recognize others is important to everyone, particularly because important social, personal, physical, and economic resources are...

Klinefelter’s syndrome is a male sex chromosome disorder affecting 1 in 500 males across all ethnic groups.  Men  with  Klinefelter’s ...

Stress exerts complex effects on eyewitness memory. On the whole, it has a negative effect, but this can be quite...

Lawrence Kohlberg developed a landmark theory on moral development that has generated much research, application, and controversy in many fields....