This course is basically designed to give a glimpse for the students about the nature of forensic psychology and its application in the legal system. As such, it deals with the very nature and definition of forensic psychology, the relationship between psychology and law, the historical development of forensic psychology, theories of forensic psychology, psycho-legal research and the applications of psychology in legal system, eyewitness testimony and memory, persuasiveness in eyewitness identification, factors affecting eyewitness testimony. Besides, legal aspects of children as eyewitness, deception of children, interviewing children on sexual abuse cases, and factors that influence children as an eyewitness are taken into consideration. On top of these, the course also deals with the nature and concepts of lie, major components of lies, roles of psychologists in lie detecting, polygraph analysis and its limitations on one hand. On the other hand, the concept of statement validity analysis, types of SVA, major criteria to differentiate credible from false testimony and factors that influence SVA takes the lion’s share of forensic psychology. Moreover, it also gives an emphasis on the sexual crime analysis, phallometry as a device, pedophilia and child molestation. To this end, problem solving strategies such as gestalt approach, profile analysis and treatment strategies are mentionable.

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