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 single events or individu
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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 single 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
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