Legal psychology

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Legal psychology was defined by James Ogloff, in his article 'Two Steps Forward and One Step Back' as 'the scientific study of the effect of law on people; and the effect people have on the law. Legal psychology also includes the application of the study and practice of psychology to legal institutions and people who come into contact with the law. Legal psychology is a field which takes basic social and cognitive theories and principles and applies them to issues in the legal system such as eyewitness memory, criminal and civil jury decision-making, investigations and interviewing, just to name a few. Most notably, legal psychologists have been involved in areas such as wrongful convictions and actual innocence cases, jury and trial consulting, as well as Department of Justice guidelines on eyewitness identification.

There are now many legal psychology journals, including Law and Human Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Psychology, Crime, and Law, and Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Other journals such as Applied Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Applied Psychology have recently published research from this field.

The American Psychological Society's Division 41, the American Law and Psychology Society is active and there are similar societies in Britain and Europe.

A broad survey of the entire field in North America, the UK, continental Europe, Australia and New Zealand is provided in Kapardis, Psychology and Law

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