Applying Psychological Research to Criminal Justice Practice

Forensic Psychology
Contents
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discuss and evaluate how psychological research can be applied to criminal justice practice
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Criminal justice is determined as the justice provided to the one who have committed crimes
in their life. It is also seen as the criminal justice system which includes government institutions
and agencies. The main goal of this zone is to prevent crimes by simply rehabilitating offenders
or the person who has been indulging into the crime (Brough, Brown and Biggs, 2015). All of
the activities performed by criminal justice is to just raise moral of victims and provide them
support in living the better lifestyle after completing their punishable period of time. There have
been many situations seen when people who have not even committed the crime but unwillingly
agrees the fault by accepting the crime. There could have been range of reason due to which
these people gets agree to the crime which are not even done by them. The acceptance of the
crime which has not been done by the individual is commonly termed as false confession. The
present report provides detailed study on false confession, its analysis, reason behind it, ways to
overcome this and others. This subject area will be evaluated in detailed manner.
MAIN BODY
Discuss and evaluate how psychological research can be applied to criminal justice practice
It can be said that criminal justice system includes court, special police force and
institutions who works collaboratively to protect public, arrest the suspected person and punish
to the one who have been proven as the faulty person (Gudjonsson and Haward, 2016). The
respective system directly contributes in preventing crime worldwide. Criminal justice is
explored as the vaster area whose main responsibility is to reduce number of criminal cases in
society. In order to do so in rightful manner the main component of this area especially police,
courts and other crime control institution remains strict and maintains pressure on the suspects to
commit the crime so that they can be punished according to the crime which have been done by
them (Marsh and Melville, 2019). Here, it has been seen that this much strict behaviour of the
police or other institutions many a times forces wrong person to commit the crime which has not
been done by them. The suspected person could have been indulged into this situation due to any
supportive situation or their might be other probable situation that have indirectly placed name of
others crime on them. False confession is determined as the one of the common thing that would
have been seen commonly in the criminal justice area as there are many people who got punished
for the crime which have not been performed by them yet (Bonta and Andrews, 2016).
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