Create a 12 pages page paper that discusses what is forensic psychology, history, relationship between psychology and the law.

Create a 12 pages page paper that discusses what is forensic psychology, history, relationship between psychology and the law. In the clinical/medical sense, forensic psychology involves psychological evaluation, calculation, and prevention of future risks and danger and methods of rehabilitation of perpetrators. There are also some experimental subjects in psychology and law that are tackled such as social, inter and intrapersonal behavior, cognition, and other areas. Examples of areas on the legal side of forensic psychology are decision-making injuries, identification of potential witnesses, the significance of star witnesses, and the importance of children and minors in the courthouse. Other aspects that are beginning to have very big impacts in forensics psychology are the examination of the various significance of court decisions, legislative actions, and conclusions on social behavior and beliefs. Advocates of forensic psychology believe that these areas hold the promise of psychology and law to help build a better society (Melton, 1992). On the other hand, there are aspects of forensic psychology that are specific to either psychology or law only and these will not be discussed in this paper (Huss, 2001b).

Psychology and Law’s extensive and broad nature can be read in issues of Law and Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology-Law Society, a branch of the American Psychological Association. It contains articles upon articles about forensic psychology and is available all throughout the year. Articles included in the journal cover a wide array of topics, ranging from coerced confessions, methods of polygraph procedures, alternate trial processes, pre-trial publicity, reports of capital cases and the pressure of the present members of the council for that case and sex offenses to name a few (Wiener, 1997).