Lawyers on psychology and psychologists on law

The emergence of the psychology and law movement can be seen as an expression of the need to widen and to shift the scope of the traditional forensic psychology and criminology. Psychologists became interested in legal topics beyond the criminal procedure and lawyers started to take an interest in psychology outside clinical psychology. The field of law and psychology now includes far more than traditional forensic psychology and criminology. But lawyers and psychologists often use different languages. There is a large gap to bridge. Still, both can profit form each other's findings, as this book will show. In this book several lawyers offer their views on psychology (e.g. the psychology of litigants, psychodynamics of courtroom behaviour), and some psychologists give their views on law topics (taxpayer compliance, jury decisions and retention of information, stereotyping by prison personell). This is the first volume in a biennial series, called 'Law and Psychology', in which psychologists and lawyers inform us of recent developments in their expanding field.