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Eyewitnesses to a crime or other incident often recall that event dozens of times while waiting for a trial that...

Almost all crimes become known to the police because citizens, usually victims, report them. In this role as gatekeeper, victims...

While one cannot deny that repressed and recovered memories have had an effect on individuals, their families, and our legal...

An important issue for the police and courts is the extent to which an eyewitness’s decision about a lineup can...

Retention interval refers to the amount of time that elapses between the end of a witness’s encounter with a perpetrator...

A worker may be required to leave the workplace because of the experience of an extreme stressor on the job,...

Violence risk assessment is relevant to the field of law and psychology because it occurs at numerous junctures in the...

The Risk-Sophistication-Treatment Inventory (RSTI) is a semistructured interview and rating scale that is designed to help clinicians assess Risk for...

The Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS) is a structured decision model for quantifying relevant psychological variables that are salient...

Scientific jury selection (SJS) is the use of a survey to decide which jurors to favor in a trial. Prior...

Like many other spheres of contemporary life, the mass media have been profoundly affected by the processes of globalization. During...

When labor is in the news media, it reveals – perhaps more than any other subject – the economic, political,...

Labor unions have been a feature on the world’s media landscape for close to two centuries. Depending on the era...

Markets are where media function. They also provide the foundation of economic analyses, providing the context and mechanisms for explaining...

The issue of media conglomeration, or the phenomenon of a vast amount of cultural (media) production being controlled by a...

The core task of media management is to build a bridge between the general theoretical disciplines of management and the...

In an age of rapid technological innovation it would seem counterintuitive to assume that marketing and advertising techniques would remain...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s two books were published that tracked the growing concentration of ownership in the...

Structures of media ownership take the form of either public or private enterprises. “Public” refers to those media funded at...

The origin of the term “piracy” dates back to the thirteenth century when rogue seamen who intercepted merchant and military...

For several professions, the initial career choices are followed by the need to choose a specialty within that profession. For...

Succession planning refers to an effort by organizations to select and develop future leaders who are prepared to replace current...

Sweatshop labor describes work performed under conditions that violate normal standards of minimum wage, employment, worker treatment, and workplace health...

For an increasing number of jobs, the future belongs to teams. Due to the complexity of tasks, the need to...

In the first half of the twentieth century, employment careers were often characterized by long periods of stable, uninterrupted employment...

A difficult task facing career counselors concerns applying abstract career theories to concrete problems presented by clients. Over the years,...

There is an adage, “Give people a fish and they eat for a day, but teach them to fish and...

DISCOVER Career Planning Program from ACT, inc., is a comprehensive computer-based career guidance system offered on the Internet for Grade...

The Environmental Assessment Technique (EAT) was developed by John L. Holland and Alexander W. Astin to quickly and easily capture...

Frederic Kuder published his first career interest assessment in 1939. The Kuder Preference Record was different from the other vocational...

Phonology, also called phonemics, is the study of the organization of speech sounds into a linguistic system of contrasting elements...

Pictographs, sometimes referred to as pictograms or pictoglyphs, are written, painted, or engraved signs that express ideas or meaning in...

Dr. Kenneth Lee Pike was born in Woodstock, CT, in 1912. He earned his B.A. in theology from Gordon College...

Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who has argued that human capacities for speech and abstract thought are based on...

The field of political economy is defined by a set of questions surrounding economic modes of production and their subsequent...

In its most basic form, political science can be defined as the study of both the institutions that form states...

Political scientists have delineated five “crises” that nations seem to undergo, in sequence, in their political development. Identity: People develop...

The major thesis of political anthropology is that politics cannot be isolated from other subsystems of a society. Political anthropology...

Anthropologists have long recognized that marriage, while widely variable in meaning and form, is cross-cultural. One way that marriage varies...

Polynesia (“many islands”) is one of the three major cultural areas or regions in the Pacific Ocean, the others being...

Hundreds of research studies that have examined a wide range of topics on public opinion about crime support the conclusion that...

The study of public opinion about the courts is closely tied to concerns that date back to the Constitutional Convention....

The public is routinely informed that suspects have been administered a polygraph test and have either failed or passed the...

The relationship between race and the decision making of juries is complex and controversial. Media and public discussions of the...

The issue of racial bias in death penalty has long been a significant concern in the system of capital punishment....

Rape trauma syndrome (RTS) is a topic about which experts testify in legal cases. It is most often used by...

The Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism, abbreviated as the RRASOR (pronounced like the cutting tool), is an actuarial...

Reconstructive memory refers to a class of memory theories that claim that the experience of remembering an event involves processes...

Law enforcement personnel use a variety of procedures to elicit confessions from suspects. The Reid Technique uses psychological methods to...

Religion has the ability to affect death penalty trials in numerous ways. The most studied include the effects of jurors’...