Research Topics and Lab
Topics
Research in the field of psychology and law covers many topics. The links below lead to other Web sites that provide information about topics covered in this research.
Adult Clinical/Forensic Psychology
- McArthur Research Network: Mental Health and the Law
- McArthur Research Network: Mandated Community Treatment
- Police Psychology Online
- Robert Hare's website devoted to the study of psychopathy
- Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
Correctional Psychology
- International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology
- Opportunities in Correctional Psychology
- Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management
- Indian Country Prison Grants
- Prisoner Reentry Initiative Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities
- Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program
- State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
- National Prison Rape Elimination Commission
- Prison Rape Elimination Act
- Public Safety Officers' Benefit
- Reentry.gov
- Center for Sex Offender Management
- National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Institute Technology Institute for Corrections
Interpersonal & Domestic Violence
- National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center
- International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
- National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
- National Center for Victims of Crime
- Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative
- APA Violence Prevention Office
- Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: Research & Intervention (a bibliography)
Interrogations, Confessions & Deception Detection
- How to Detect Lies
- Polygraph Law Resource Page
- Deception blog
- Psychology and Crime News (blog)
- False Confession (Innocence Project)
- The Causes of Wrongful Conviction (from the Innocence Project)
- John E. Reid & Associates
- Criminal Law Resources: False Confessions (includes links to bibliographies)
Jury Decision Making
- Pattern Jury Instructions posted by the Fifth Circuit Library
- List of online Jury Instructions
- Jury Decision Making Resource Guide from the National Center for State Courts
- ForeCite's Jury Instructions
- Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors
Juvenile Clinical & Developmental Psychology
- Center For The Prevention of School Violence
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
- Child Victims Act Model Courts Project
Mental Health Law
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Psychiatry and Law Updates
- Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- Mental Health Courts Resource Guide (from National Center for State Courts)
- Summary of State Laws for Mental Health Treatment (from Treatment Advocacy Center)
- Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Mental Health Law Decisions - from LII
Witness Memory (Eyewitness Identification & Child Witnesses)
- Multiple bibliographies from Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso
- UNI Eyewitness Identification Laboratory
- Innocence Lost (from PBS)
- Child Witness to Violence Project
Lab
The links below lead to Web pages created by researchers that describe the ongoing research activities in their research laboratory. The links will open in a new window.
- Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab (Tess Neal, Arizona State University)
- Dating Violence Research Lab ( Emilio Ulloa, San Diego State University)
- Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory (Roy Malpass & Chris Meissner, University of Texas at El Paso)
- Eyewitness Lab (Otto Maclin, University of Northern Iowa)
- Eyewitness Memory (Gary Wells, Iowa State University)
- Investigative Interviewing Research Laboratory (Chris Meissner, University of Texas at El Paso)
- Psychology and Law Lab (Brooke Butler, University of South Florida)
- Psychology and Law Research Lab (Narina Nunez, Scott Culhane & Scott Freng, University of Wyoming)
- Psychology and Law Lab (James Lampinen, University of Arkansas)
- Psychology and Law Laboratory (James Honts, Boise State University)
- Witness Research Lab (Stan Brodsky, The University of Alabama)
- Yuille Lab (John Yuille, University of British Columbia)
The following links lead to sides that may contain online studies that are collecting data relevant to psychology and law:
- Psychology and Law Laboratory for Web-based Studies
- Psychological Research on the Net
- Social Psychology Network's Online Social Psychological Studies
