PSY 230- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 243 pages long!)
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An interdisciplinary branch of psychology, that involves the application and production of psychological knowledge to problems, issues, and circumstances in the civil and criminal justice systems. 2 areas of the legal system: civil - private law; disputes between private parties. Criminal code: e. g. , custody and access (custody rights to children during divorce etc), defamation and malpractice suits, criminal - public law; the government enforces the rights and interests of the public; involves a violation of the criminal code. ** criminal will be the main aspect of this course. If you are not able to discern right from wrong this is what brings forth insanity pleas. Sociology: emphases placed on demographic and group correlates of crime (saucer), sex, age, urbanity, class, ethnicity, religion, groups of society as a whole and how they influence criminal activity, e. g. , unequal power distribution in society. According to the saucer model young males living in poverty are most likely to commit a crime.
