{"id":7986,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forensic_psychologist\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:48","slug":"forensic_psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forensic_psychologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psychologist who works in the field of law and criminal behaviour. &nbsp;A forensic psychologist must be able to testify in court, thus requiring the ability to formulate psychological findings in appropriate legal language. &nbsp;Forensic psychologists are employed in a variety of settings, including academia, police, probation and social services. &nbsp;In the UK, most such psychologists work in the prison service. &nbsp;Forensic psychology consists of a number of sub-fields such as forensic neuropsychology, requiring knowledge of brain structures and functions as well as brain damage. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"neuropsychology\">Neuropsychology<\/a>, <a href=\"psychology\">Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychologist who works in the field of law and criminal behaviour. &nbsp;A forensic psychologist must be able to testify in court, thus requiring the ability to formulate psychological findings in appropriate legal language. &nbsp;Forensic psychologists are employed in a variety of settings, including academia, police, probation and social services. &nbsp;In the UK, most such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forensic_psychologist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forensic psychologist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}