Research
The mission of the Forensic Psychology section is to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge on psychological issues in the legal arena. This includes research that focuses on memory aberrations and their relevance to the court (e.g., eyewitness accounts, culpability of offenders with supposed memory deficits, lie detection, traumatic memory, malingering, suggestibility, competence of children as eyewitnesses), as well as on mental disorders (personality disorders, psychotic disorders, substance abuse disorders, autism-spectrum disorders) and how they relate to criminal recidivism and response to treatment. Members of this section not only conduct research in this domain, but also write expert reports in criminal and civil cases upon request from lawyers, the district attorney (‘officier van justitie’) or the investigating judge (‘rechter-commissaris’).
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