Students will create a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 8 -10 slides (not including the cover slide and reference slide) that looks at the issues of the development of psychology in the field of...

Forensic and Police Psychology        4
FORENSIC AND POLICE PSYCHOLOGY
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
History of The Development of Police Psychology    3
Change in The Role of Psychology and Its Effect on Law Enforcement    4
Legal Issues Regarding Police Psychology    5
Background of The Americans with Disabilities Act    6
Role of The Forensic Psychologists    6
Issues Raised on Police Psychology    7
Conclusion    8
References    9
Introduction
Psychology is characterized as a discipline that studies the mental aspects that influence human behavior. In a nutshell, it investigates the human imagination and its impact on human behavior. This covers emotional, affective, and conative elements. Psychological experiments are concerned with both explicit and implicit mental states. Many topics have been used in the scope of psychology over time. In the legal sphere, it is useful in assessing the authenticity of testimonies, a criminal's men’s rea when breaking the law, and, most importantly, what sentence can be given to an individual when maintaining his psychological state of mind in mind. To some point, psychology has begun to see a suspect as a person suffering from a psychiatric illness, and therefore argues that those people should not be disciplined but rather treated successfully.
History of The Development of Police Psychology
Many who favor a limited description of forensic psychology usually exclude police psychology from its scope (Dror and Murrie, 2018). We did so because police officers are sworn to enforce the law and are frequently the guardians to felony and juvenile justice, if not civil trials. As a result, counselors who work with police in a variety of capacities (e.g., prosecution, applicant evaluation, kidnapping cases, interviewing strategies) are linked to the judicial system.
Individual psychologists have offered a range of resources to law enforcement without their practice being officially recognized, making it impossible to pinpoint exactly when police psychology started. As early as 1919, police forces in Germany employed psychiatrists in a number of capacities. Contributions in the United States, in line with the early twentieth-century psychometric trend, focused on evaluation, especially cognitive assessment applied to applicants for law enforcement roles.
Change in The Role of Psychology and Its Effect on Law Enforcement
The study of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, released in May 2015, highlighted a profound shift in the topics dominating debates regarding policing in America (González, 2019). This shift has shifted conversations away from what is lawful or successful in crime prevention and more towards how police activities affect public interest and faith in the police. This shift of discourse has been motivated by two factors: first, public officials' recognition that increases in police professionalism and dramatic decreases in crime rates have not resulted in increases in police legitimacy; and second, greater awareness of the limitations of the predominant coercive model of governance and the possibilities of an alternative and much more collaborative paradigm based on consensus.
Psychological science has played an important role in legitimizing this shift of politicians' thinking regarding policing by showing that assumed authority forms a series of law-related attitudes as well than, if not better than, fears about the likelihood of retribution. Keeping with the rules and collaboration with judicial authority are examples of these habits. These results show that focusing on authority benefits legal authorities....