Summary and Insights on Forensic Psychology

The former further branches into crime identification and crime profiling, while the latter branches into jury selection and expert witness. Notably, both the criminal investigation and court proceeding branches have interlinking and interrelated roles of clinical evaluation, experimental analysis and evaluation, actuarial and advisory. The non-criminal function of forensic psychology collaborates with family law to help solve family matters. The interoperability between forensic psychology and family law requires a mix of the former with astute knowledge of developmental psychology. In context, the mix calls for informed parental fitness and child assessments, whereby interviews, standardized testing and observations by a qualified forensic psychologist take the centre stage. Importantly, the linkage between patterns of crime data and intelligence information and file from observers and investigators requires astute modus operandi, specific identification of timeframes and space to make the whole process transparent and acceptable by many.