USEFUL LINKS FOR ATTORNEYS

Custody evaluations are conducted following the guidelines of the American Psychological Association.

British Medical Journal publishes material for doctors, medical students, and other professionals. The range includes scientific studies, educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health.

FindLaw.com provides access to judicial news, case law, and court rulings. Click on Legal Commentary, Cases & Codes,

News & Analysis or search by topic or case.

Law and Human Behavior is published by Springer Journals for the APA Division 41, American Psychology and Law. To review abstracts of articles on forensic psychology, go to Law and Human Behavior and search by topic.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is published by the American Psychological Association. Abstracts of articles can be found by using the search feature. Topics include jury selection, memory, competency, and other subjects related to forensic psychology.

Crime Library is a site developed for Court T.V. and is not academic. However, this site has links to summaries of important documentaries and research regarding criminal psychology, notably, psychopathy/antisocial personality. Search for research by Robert Hare, Ph.D. who developed the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

The Third Branch is a newsletter of the federal courts and contains a wealth of information regarding federal court rulings as well as other issues related to the judiciary.
Violence Risk is a site providing links to sites that describe various instruments used to assess risk for violence, risk for sexual offenses, and legal issues for expert testimony.

Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) is a national project that supports state and local jurisdictions in the effective management of sex offenders under community supervision.