• Table of Contents


• Contributor List


• Editors' Prologue


• Stanley L. Brodsky and Thomas Grisso


• Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology and Law


• Thomas Grisso


• Section I: Psychological Science and Law


• Chapter 2: Eyewitness Testimony: An Eyewitness Report


• Elizabeth F. Loftus


• Chapter 3: Applying Social Psychology to Law and the Legal Process


• Michael J. Saks


• Chapter 4: Jury Research


• Shari Seidman Diamond


• Chapter 5: Mental Health Law and the Seeds of Therapeutic Jurisprudence


• David B. Wexler


• Chapter 6: Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility, and Civil Commitment


• Stephen J. Morse


• Chapter 7: Framing, Institutionalizing, and Nurturing Research in Psychology and Law


• Bruce D. Sales


• Section II: Assessment, Interventions, and Practice in Legal Contexts


• Chapter 8: Forensic Mental Health Services and Competence to Stand Trial


• Ronald Roesch


• Chapter 9: Predictions of Violence


• John Monahan


• Chapter 10: Juveniles' Psycholegal Capacities


• Thomas Grisso


• Chapter 11: Correctional Psychology


• Stanley L. Brodsky


• Chapter 12: The Founding and Early Years of the American Board of Forensic Psychology


• Florence W. Kaslow


• Chapter 13: Community Psychology, Public Policy, and Children


• N. Dickon Reppucci


• Epilogue: Psychology and Law at AP-LS' Fiftieth Anniversary


• Thomas Grisso and Stanley L. Brodsky


• Index of Names

Thomas Grisso, Ph.D, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was president of the American Psychology-Law Society in 1990 and Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. He has received outstanding achievement awards from both organizations as well as the American Psychological Association.
Stanley L. Brodsky, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus and Scholar-in-Residence at The University of Alabama, where has was a faculty member from 1972-2016. He was a founding member of the American Psychology-Law Society and has received awards for Outstanding Achievement from the American-Psychology-Law Society and the American Association of Correctional Psychologists.

The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History reveals how the field developed during the first decade following the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society. The contributors to this edited volume, widely considered to be among the "founders" of the field, were responsible for establishing and nurturing many of the subfields and topics in psychology and law or forensic psychology that flourished across the next fifty years.