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Forensic Psychology

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Below are links to some cool forensic psychology stuff, with an emphasis on material from staff at The Open University.

Videos:

  • BBC Series, Eyewitness
  • Test your eyewitness skills
  • Memory and miscarriages of justice
  • New technique to improve child witness evidence
  • Improving line-up identifications using the mystery man procedure
  • Identification evidence
  • The ethics of studying witnesses
  • How we wrote the Forensic Psychology MOOC
  • How we wrote the Forensic Psychology MOOC part 2

Apps, widgets and MOOCs:

  • Free online course in Forensic Psychology
  • Photofit Me
  • Brainwave
  • Postcode Patterns

Online articles and blogs:

  • I would build…schools instead of prisons
  • Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
  • Is technology making your attention span shorter than a goldfish’s?
  • Realistic robot faces aren’t enough – we need emotion to put us at ease with androids
  • How to improve identification evidence: Practitioner hits and academic false alarms
  • Why do people confess to crimes they haven’t committed?
  • Harmful evidence – wrongful conviction or suspicion on the basis of flawed eyewitness testimony

Websites and social media:

  • Forensic Cognition FaceBook page
  • Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative – OU pages
  • Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative – Blog site
  • Identifying famous E-FITs

Useful links:

  • Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
  • BPS careers in forensic psychology
  • NHS forensic psychology

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