This volume offers a picture of some of the traditional and innovative areas of research and scholarly thinking that fall within law and psychology. The contributors (who come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines) present examples of the kind of work psycho-legal scholars perform as well as sources of information from which future work will flow.

Ogloff has broken the book into five general areas of interest: Children and the Law, Criminal Responsibility, Mental Health Policy, Jury Instructions and Jury Decision Making, Civil Law and Psychology.