Legal and Criminological Psychology

Scope

Legal and Criminological Psychology publishes original papers which advance professional and scientific knowledge in the conjunction of legal psychology and criminological psychology. This field, constructed as ‘forensic psychology’, is defined broadly as the application of psychology to the understanding of offenders’ behaviour, the investigative and judiciary processes that bring them to justice, their treatment and the outcomes of their criminal actions. The topics covered include the causes of different types of crimes, psychopathy, criminal investigation, investigative interview and questioning, information eliciting, applied memory, deception detection, criminal profiling and crime linkage, professional training, legal and investigative decision making, expert testimonies, offender management, treatment and assessment, crime victimization, legal and public responses to crime. The journal aims to stimulate conversations and debates, to serve as a platform for communication amongst various disciplines, academic researchers, professionals and practitioners, and to provide a compelling picture of current state-of-art research in the field.