There’s this forensic psychologist, we’ll call him Dr. Harms, who is infamous for his unorthodox approach. He scampers around the country ...

A colleague recently commented on how favorably impressed he was about the open-mindedness of two other forensic examiners, who had had the ...

I've been reporting for quite some time about problems with the reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), a popular...

Use of a controversial psychopathy test is skyrocketing in court, even as mounting evidence suggests that the prejudicial instrument is ...

If you want to know whether that psychopathic fellow sitting across the table from you will commit a violent crime within the next three yea...

Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the r...

  Psychologists' scoring of forensic tools depends on which side they believe has hired them A brilliant experiment has proven th...

In an eye-opening exercise in my graduate forensic psychology course, I had two groups separately analyze a sanitized forensic report. The s...

Rater agreement on three instruments commonly used  to assess sex offenders' risk of recidivism is much lower in practice than reporte...