Whether you think so may depend on your race, according to the results of a Harris Poll released yesterday. Not surprisingly, most white re...

I've been blogging about the fascinating case of Tim Masters in Colorado, who was convicted in part based on a prominent forensic psycho...

This week has seen lots of interesting forensic news. A few highlights, with links: Daryl Atkins' sentence commuted On Thursday, more th...

Crime calls forth so many emotions. Fascination. Horror. Anxiety. But probably most of all, fear. Fear is a powerful emotion. In deft hands,...

With California children sharing textbooks in dilapidated schools where "riding the bus" is slang for mental illness, California i...

Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom Edited by Eugene Borgida and Susan T. Fiske So many books are pouring out these ...

The uproar over Phillip McGraw 's intrusive interaction with Britney Spears raises a number of interesting issues about clinical psychol...

Amid renewed national controversy over capital punishment, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is holding publi...

Yesterday's Los Angeles Times featured a great opinion piece on the costly and out-of-control effects of tough-on-crime rhetoric. It wa...

Just in time for next Monday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing on a challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions, Time ...

At a holiday party, the topic of jury duty came up. Immediately, everyone started competing to tell how they "got out of" serving....

The second edition of Anna Motz's Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body is now available for download as an ebook. Th...

A news report today adds further support for the theory that the San Francisco Zoo tiger who attacked three men on Christmas Day was respon...

Drug and alcohol use among teens continues to decline from its high of about a decade ago. That's the good news announced by the U.S. Of...

You may have heard about the epidemic of valley fever at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, located in California's Central Valle...

When I was a little girl, a friendly keeper at the San Francisco Zoo invited me into a cage and let me hold a koala bear. It was a thrilling...

The Second Chance Act of 2007 (H.R. 1593) would authorize $340 million in programs to reintegrate prisoners to their communities. Passed by...

Two big stories out of California today: In what would probably be the largest mass release in U.S. history, prison doors could swing open e...

Expert witness psychologist cited FBI profiler who had rejected prosecution theory of case The forensic psychology angles in Tim Masters...

Scot freed after 20 years This story hasn't been getting much press in the United States, but it's been a topic of interest in Europ...