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Ethical and Methodological Considerations for Gender Researchers in Forensic Psychology

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Forensic psychology is a broad and rapidly growing field that encompasses the intersection of psychology and the law. Although psychologists have been involved with research on forensically relevant subjects and have consulted on forensic issues for over 100 years, the field has been in a period of expansion and professionalization since the 1970 s. As is often the case during the growth of a profession, there remains some disagreement about the boundaries, definitions, and terminologies that form the common understanding of what forensic psychology is, what minimum or common training standards are necessary or sufficient for forensic psychology as a discipline, and what criteria must be met for an individual to be labeled a “forensic psychologist.

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Heard, K.V. (2010). Ethical and Methodological Considerations for Gender Researchers in Forensic Psychology. In: Chrisler, J., McCreary, D. (eds) Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1467-5_25

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