Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and
misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with …

Objective. Cognitive biases can impact experts' judgments and decisions. We offer a broad
descriptive model of how bias affects human judgment. Although studies have explored the …

How objective are forensic experts when they are retained by one of the opposing sides in
an adversarial legal proceeding? Despite long-standing concerns from within the legal …

Most risk assessment scales are developed to broadly rank individuals according to their
risk to reoffend, not to inform particular legal decisions. Consequently, there is almost always …

A Canadian Federal court recently impugned the administering of 5 risk assessment
instruments with Canadian Aboriginal prisoners. The ramifications of the ruling for the field …

This study surveyed 199 forensic clinicians about the practices that they use in assessing
violence risk in juvenile and adult offenders. Results indicated that the use of risk …

A qualitative study with 20 board-certified forensic psychologists was followed up by a mail
survey of 351 forensic psychologists in this mixed-methods investigation of examiner bias …

Digital forensics is an important and growing forensic domain. Research on miscarriages of
justice and misleading evidence, as well as various inquires in the UK and the US, have …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 20 (3) of
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (see record 2014-30730-002). This article contained an …

we (1) provide a synthesis and interpretation of criminal recidivism prediction research,
focusing on recent meta-analytic studies and the impact of methodological and …