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[edit] New Revision

It's about time this article gets a substantial revision. I'll try to build on what is here and also make the distinction between legal psychology and forensic psychology more explicit. I welcome any comments. -Nick^talk 00:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I could go in more detail about stuff, but I think for now I'm going to make stylistic edits. I don't know much about forensic psychology except that it is part witchcraft or something, and I don't know what kind of jobs are available in public policy--just that legal psychologists use them. I could also add more specific issues in legal psychology, such as eyewitness memory, but I think those work best in their own entries.

[edit] Old Stuff

I've never heard of James Oggloff, but it seems improbable that an obvious field as the crossover between law and psy was established in such an article. Verification please? Radiant! 11:55, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

James Ogloff is a noted psychologist and specifically, legal psychologist. While I am not familiar with the article this refers to, it is probable that a loose definition of legal psychology was given in such a (presumably) review article. I daresay that the article did not necessarily "establish" legal psychology, and I take offense to the mention of the field being so blasely "obvious." 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. --

I've slightly expanded the article to clarify that, as the commenter above noted, Ogloff's article was a review article, not a claim to invent the field. I think this merits removing the "disputed" tag.