Forensic Psychology: A Career As An Attorney
Forensic Psychology and an Attorney
Kenya Taylor
Intro to psychology
Forensic Psychology and an Attorney
Although I am still quite indecisive of exactly what I want to be in life, I have a general idea of the careers I am going to choose from. The one I am leaning more towards is a profession as a criminal lawyer. A criminal lawyer is a person who practices or studies the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating actions of its members. A criminal lawyer may either represent a person who has been accused of a crime or the government in prosecuting the accused. The area of specialization that I think closely resembles my career goals would be forensic psychology. Forensic Psychology applies psychology …show more content…
As a lawyer I think your substantial objective should be to have an understanding of people, if you are able to understand people and their behavior it makes it easier to either defend or prosecute a person.
On a day to day basis, examples of how criminal law would amalgamate into psychology would be when the defendant or prosecutor is testifying, taking the information and being able to adequately analyze it, so you can determining the proper questions to ask, and vital information to point out to sufficiently explain your point of view of defending or prosecuting the individual. They also have to evaluate their audience to effectively deliver their point.
Another example would be when criminal lawyers conduct legal research to find evidence, such as similar cases, facts, and data. This research will help exemplify and clarify their point, bolstering his or her client’s case by assisting the court in its …show more content…
V. (2010). Forensic Pyschology: A very short introducton. Oxford University Press.
Experience Pyschology. (2010). In L. A. King, The science of pschology (p. 12). McGraw-Hill.
Leswnick, H. (1992). Being a lawyer: Indivitual choice and responsibility in the practice of law. West Publishing Company.
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Kenya Taylor
Intro to psychology
Forensic Psychology and an Attorney
Although I am still quite indecisive of exactly what I want to be in life, I have a general idea of the careers I am going to choose from. The one I am leaning more towards is a profession as a criminal lawyer. A criminal lawyer is a person who practices or studies the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating actions of its members. A criminal lawyer may either represent a person who has been accused of a crime or the government in prosecuting the accused. The area of specialization that I think closely resembles my career goals would be forensic psychology. Forensic Psychology applies psychology …show more content…
As a lawyer I think your substantial objective should be to have an understanding of people, if you are able to understand people and their behavior it makes it easier to either defend or prosecute a person.
On a day to day basis, examples of how criminal law would amalgamate into psychology would be when the defendant or prosecutor is testifying, taking the information and being able to adequately analyze it, so you can determining the proper questions to ask, and vital information to point out to sufficiently explain your point of view of defending or prosecuting the individual. They also have to evaluate their audience to effectively deliver their point.
Another example would be when criminal lawyers conduct legal research to find evidence, such as similar cases, facts, and data. This research will help exemplify and clarify their point, bolstering his or her client’s case by assisting the court in its …show more content…
V. (2010). Forensic Pyschology: A very short introducton. Oxford University Press.
Experience Pyschology. (2010). In L. A. King, The science of pschology (p. 12). McGraw-Hill.
Leswnick, H. (1992). Being a lawyer: Indivitual choice and responsibility in the practice of law. West Publishing Company.
Footnotes
1[Add footnotes, if any, on their own page following references. For APA formatting requirements, it’s easy to just type your own footnote references and notes. To format a footnote reference, select the number and then, on the Home tab, in the Styles gallery, click Footnote Reference. The body of a footnote, such as this example, uses the Normal text style. (Note: If you delete this sample footnote, don’t forget to delete its in-text reference as well. That’s at the end of the sample Heading 2 paragraph on the first page of body content in this template.)]
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[Table Title] Column Head | Column Head | Column Head | Column Head | Column Head | Row Head | 123 | 123 | 123 | 123 | Row Head | 456 | 456 | 456 | 456 | Row Head | 789 | 789 | 789 | 789