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This specialty section aims at promoting research into both fundamental and applied issues in forensic and legal psychology.
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Scope
This specialty section accepts manuscripts reporting on both fundamental and applied research in forensic and legal psychology. The section is devoted to publishing forensic and legal psychology papers relevant to all fields of legal practice (criminal, civil, family, immigration, international). Thus, submissions may address all legal and forensic psychology topics, including but not limited to:
• Forensic psychological assessment
• Risk assessment and risk management in offenders/patients, including adults, adolescents and children
• Prison psychology, offender rehabilitation
• Psychopathy and antisocial personality
• Intimate partner abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, and other forms of domestic abuse
• Cross-cultural aspects in forensic and legal psychology
• Victimology • Eyewitness memory
• Investigative interviewing
• Malingering of symptoms
• Lie detection
• Forensic neuropsychology
• Cognitive bias relevant to legal proceedings
• Ethical issues
We welcome case reports and review papers (including meta-analyses) as well as scholarly contributions on professional, training and policy issues. Multidisciplinary contributions are particularly encouraged. We favor rigorous evaluations of innovative approaches to the assessment and treatment of both victims and perpetrators of crime. Our aim is to promote the publication of high quality research and theoretical papers to further the goal of improving professional practice, in the service of social justice and human rights.
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Forensic and Legal Psychology welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Brief Research Report, Case Report, Conceptual Analysis, Correction, Data Report, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Registered Report, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology and Code.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Forensic and Legal Psychology, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
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