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Forensic Psychology articles and reporting from Nyayik Vigyan.
Forensic psychology is a field of psychology that involves the application of psychological principles and methods to legal and criminal justice contexts. In India, forensic psychology is an emerging field that is gaining recognition and attention from both the legal and mental health professions.…
Violent Offender, the number of offenders with mental illness convicted of violent offenses is rapidly growing in the criminal justice systems . However, effective rehabilitative treatment programs for violent offenders with mental illness have been limited (Braham, Jones & Hollin, 2008). This…
Investigative techniques are continuously upgraded as per the requirement of crimes. Some of the conventional investigative techniques like 3degree interrogation are to an extent eliminated and more emphasis is given to the use of psychological investigative approaches. Psychological autopsy is one…
What is criminal psychology? Criminal psychology is a field of psychology that focuses on the study of the criminal way of behaving and the inspirations driving it. It looks at the mental processes of criminals, including their thought processes and decision-making, as well as the psychological…
The Psychological Autopsy (P.A) is a method to comprehend the psychological condition of a perished individual before death by remaking what the individual felt thought and did going before their passing. This is a Reconstructive Mental State Evaluation (RMSE) that can be characterized as a…
