Table Of ContentThe Roots of Modern Psychology and Law
The Roots of Modern
Psychology and Law
A Narrative History
EDITED BY
THOMAS GRISSO
AND
STANLEY L. BRODSKY
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CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS VII
EDITORS’ PROLOGUE XIII
Stanley L. Brodsky and Thomas Grisso
1. The Evolution of Psychology and Law 1
Thomas Grisso
SECTION I Psychological Science and Law 29
2. Eyewitness Testimony: An Eyewitness Report 31
Elizabeth F. Loftus
3. Applying Social Psychology to Law and the Legal Process 44
Michael J. Saks
4. Jury Research 61
Shari Seidman Diamond
5. Mental Health Law and the Seeds of Therapeutic Jurisprudence 78
David B. Wexler
6. Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility, and Civil Commitment 94
Stephen J. Morse
7. Framing, Institutionalizing, and Nurturing Research
in Psychology and Law 109
Bruce D. Sales
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SECTION II Assessment, Interventions, and Practice
in Legal Contexts 125
8. Forensic Mental Health Services and Competence
to Stand Trial 127
Ronald Roesch
9. Predictions of Violence 143
John Monahan
10. Developmental Psycholegal Capacities 158
Thomas Grisso
11. Correctional Psychology 178
Stanley L. Brodsky
12. The Founding and Early Years of the American Board
of Forensic Psychology 195
Florence W. Kaslow
13. Community Psychology, Public Policy, and Children 207
N. Dickon Reppucci
EDITORS’ EPILOGUE 223
Thomas Grisso and Stanley L. Brodsky
INDEX 227
CONTRIBUTORS
Stanley L. Brodsky, PhD, is professor emeritus and scholar- in- residence
at the University of Alabama, where he was a faculty member from 1972
to 2016. He previously was chief psychologist at the U.S. Disciplinary
Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was with the Center for the Study
of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale. He was a founding member of the American Psychology– Law
Society and has received the awards for Outstanding Achievement from
the American Psychology– Law Society and the American Association of
Correctional Psychologists. He is the editor or author of 15 books and
over 250 articles, mostly in the area of psychology applied to the law.
Shari Seidman Diamond, PhD, JD, is Howard J. Trienens Professor of
Law and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, where she
heads the JD/ PhD program, and a research professor at the American
Bar Foundation. She was president of the American Psychology– Law
Society (1987– 1988), editor of the Law & Society Review (1988– 1991),
and co-p resident of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (2010–
2011). She received the American Psychological Association’s award for
Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy (1991) and
the Law and Society Association’s Harry Kalven Jr. award for Empirical
Scholarship That Has Contributed Most Effectively to the Advancement
of Research in Law and Society (2010). She was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012).
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Thomas Grisso, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychiatry (clinical psychol-
ogy) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Other primary
academic appointments during his career included Ashland University
(1969– 1974) and Saint Louis University (1975– 1987). He was president
of the American Psychology– Law Society in 1990 and executive director
of the American Board of Forensic Psychology from 2003 to 2017. He
received the American Psychology– Law Society’s award for Outstanding
Contributions to Psychology and Law (2012), American Psychological
Association awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research in
Public Policy (1994) and Contributions to Applied Research (2014), the
American Psychiatric Association’s Isaac Ray Award (2005), and is an
elected Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK).
Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, is Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. Prior
academic appointments include adjunct professor of medical psychology,
Duke University Medical Center (1982–2 004), and professor and co-d irec-
tor of the PsyD/J D program at Hahnemann Medical College and Villanova
Law School (1973– 1980). She was the founding and first president of
the American Board of Forensic Psychology and American Academy of
Forensic Psychology and is a recipient of many awards from American
Psychological Association, American Psychological Foundation, and
American Board of Professional Psychology. She is board certified in
forensic, clinical, and couple and family psychology.
Elizabeth F. Loftus, PhD, is distinguished professor at the University of
California– Irvine. She holds faculty positions in two departments: psy-
chology and social behavior and criminology, law, and society. She
received her PhD in psychology from Stanford University and was for-
merly on faculty at University of Washington. She has published 22 books,
including the award-w inning Eyewitness Testimony (5th ed. LexisNexis,
2013), and over 500 scientific articles. Loftus’s research of the last 40 years
has focused on the malleability of human memory. She has been recog-
nized for this research with seven honorary doctorates and election to the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Philosophical Society, and the
Contributors ix
National Academy of Sciences. She is past president of the Association
for Psychological Science, the Western Psychological Association, and the
American Psychology– Law Society
John Monahan, PhD, is the John Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law
at the University of Virginia, where he is also a professor of psychology and
of psychiatry. He was on the faculty at the University of California–I rvine,
from 1972 to 1980. He was the president of the American Psychology- Law
Society (1978) and the founding president of the American Psychological
Association’s Division of Psychology and Law (1981) receiving that organi-
zation’s Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy Award.
He also twice received the American Psychiatric Association’s Manfred
Guttmacher (1982 and 2002) and Isaac Ray Awards (1996). He was elected
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor
of Law and professor of psychology and law in psychiatry at the University
of Pennsylvania since 1988. Previously he was the Orrin B. Evans Professor
of Law, professor of psychology and of psychiatry and the behavioral sci-
ences at the University of Southern California. He was president of the
American Psychology–L aw Society (1981– 1982) and was president
of Division 41/ American Psychology– Law Society (1986– 1987). He
received the American Academy of Forensic Psychology’s Distinguished
Contribution to Forensic Psychology Award (1989) and the Isaac Ray
Award from the American Psychiatric Association (2014) for distin-
guished contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects
of jurisprudence
Nicholas Dickon Reppucci, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology
at the University of Virginia Psychology Department. He was a lecturer
at Harvard University (1967–1 968), assistant and associate professor
at Yale University (1968– 1976) and professor at University of Virginia
(1976– 2017). He was president of Society for Community Research and
Action (American Psychological Association’s Division of Community
Psychology; 1987) and received its Award for Distinguished Scientific
