| Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychology is the application of psychological priniciples
and knowledge to various legal activities involving child custody
disputes, child abuse of an emotional, physical and sexual nature,
assessing one's personal capacity to manage one's affairs, matters
of competency to stand trial, criminal responsbility & personal
injury and advising judges in matters relating to sentencing regarding
various mitiagants and the actuarial assessment of future risk.
- Applying psychological techniques to help in the identification
and prosecution of criminals.
- The rehabilitation of criminals once in the prison system.
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