Shari Seidman Diamond Scholars interested in psychology and law are
fond of c1aiming origins for psycholegal research that date back
four score and three years ago to Hugo von Munsterberg's On the
Witness Stand, published in 1908. These early roots can mislead the
casual observer about the history of psychology and law. Vigorous
and sustained research in the field is a recent phenomenon. It is
only 15 years since the first review of psy chology and law
appeared in the Annual Review of Psychology (Tapp, 1976). The
following year saw the first issue of Law and Human Behavior, the
official publication of the American Psychology-Law Society and now
the journal of the American Psychological Associ ation's Division
of Psychology and Law. Few psychology departments offered even a
single course in psychology and law before 1973, while by 1982 1/4
of psychology graduate programs had at least one course, and a
number had begun to offer forensic minors and/or joint J. D. / Ph.
D. programs (Freeman & Roesch, see Chapter 28). Yet this short
period of less than 20 years has seen a dramatic level of activity.
Its strengths and weaknesses, excitements and disappointments, are
aII captured in the collection of chapters published in this first
Handbook of Psychology and Law. In describing what we have learned
ab out psychology and law, the works included here also reveal the
questions we have yet to answer and thus offer a blueprint for
activities in the next 20 years.
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