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Psy & Law Midterm Study Guilde FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY & LAW

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Ideographic method focuses on individual cases or events.  Nomothetic method, on the other hand, focuses on general statements that account for larger social patterns that form the context of sin... gle events or individual behavior and experience.  Psychology Legal system Based on creativity and science Based on tradition/precedent Empirical Authoritative/adversarial Nomothetic Ideographic Probabilistic Certainty Academic/theoretical Practical   Psychology: Creativity/progessive, imperial nomothetic(lots of data for little info, probalistic, academic/theoritcal  Legal: tradition/precedent, authoritative/adversarial, idiographic (particular), certainty, practical What are the qualifications for psychologists to serves as expert witnesses in the legal system?  expert witnesses must have “knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education” which will “help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.” What are the roles that psychologists play in the legal system?  Serving as a trial consultant  Expert Witness  Filing Amicus curate (friend of the court) briefs (is someone who is not a party to a case and offers information that bears on the case, but who has not been solicited by any of the parties to assist a court.)  Law Enforcement Consultant  Researcher  Law Enforcement Psychologist  Clinical treatment provider Be able to identify the similarities and differences in procedure and terminology between the civil legal system and the criminal legal system.  Civil Cases – Includes family law, civil competencies, torts (damages/injury)  2 private parties. One is suing the other.  Plaintiff brings a lawsuit against a defendant  Defendant - Person being charged; try for civil and criminal cases  Criminal Cases – Criminal competencies  Not a party, but the state or government.  Federal government or state prosecute and file a charge against defendant but the standard of truth beyond a reasonable doubt.  Prosecutor- State/ Government bringing the charges in a criminal case.  Defendant - Person being charged; try for civil and criminal cases.  Public defender- In a criminal case if the defe [Show More]

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