Psychology, Public Policy, and Law^® provides a forum to critically evaluate the contributions of psychology and related disciplines (hereinafter psychology) to public policy and legal issues, and vice versa. It is intended to appeal to law professors, legal professionals, judges, and public policy analysts, as well as psychology researchers and practitioners working at the interface of the three fields.

The journal publishes theoretical and empirical articles that

critically evaluate the contributions and potential contributions of psychology to public policy and legal issues;
assess the desirability of different public policy and legal alternatives in light of the scientific knowledge base in psychology;
articulate research needs that address public policy and legal issues for which there is currently insufficient theoretical and empirical knowledge;
present empirical work that makes a significant contribution to the application of psychological knowledge to public policy or the law; and
examine public policy and legal issues relating to the conduct of psychology and related disciplines (e.g., human subjects, protection policies; informed consent procedures).

Although some of these issues may be addressed in articles currently being submitted to traditional law reviews, this publication uniquely provides peer review, scientific and legal input, and editorial guidance from psychologists and lawyers. Through publication in a single forum, it will also focus attention of scholarly, public policy, and legal audiences on such work.

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Incoming (2013) Editorial Board

(handling all new submissions in 2012)

Incoming (2013) Editor

Michael E. Lamb
University of Cambridge

Incoming (2013) Editorial Board

J. Lawrence Aber
New York University

Karen Bogenschneider
University of Wisconsin

Elizabeth Cauffman
University of California, Irvine

Stephen J. Ceci
Cornell University

Deborah A. Connolly
Simon Fraser University

Graham M. Davies
University of Leicester

Manuel Eisner
University of Cambridge

Ira Ellman
Arizona State University

Gail S. Goodman
University of California, Davis

Thomas Grisso
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Irit Hershkowitz
University of Haifa

Peter van Koppen
Maastricht University

Margaret Bull Kovera
John Jay College, CUNY

Scott O. Lilienfeld
Emory University

Friedrich Losel
University of Cambridge

Thomas D. Lyon
University of Southern California

Kathleen McCartney
Harvard University

Christian A. Meissner
University of Texas, El Paso

Kristin A. Moore
Child Trends, Washington, DC

John E. B. Myers
Pacific University

Patrick Parkinson
University of Sydney

Deborah A. Phillips
Georgetown University

Margaret-Ellen Pipe
Brooklyn College

Martine Powell
Deakin University, Australia

Allison D. Redlich
University of New York, Albany

N. Dickon Reppucci
University of Virginia

Kim P. Roberts
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Jennifer L. Skeem
University of California, Irvine

Laurence Steinberg
Temple University

Cheryl Thomas
University College London

Aldert Vrij
University of Portsmouth

Gary L. Wells
Iowa State University

Outgoing Editorial Board

(handling invited revisions only during 2012)

Outgoing Editor

Ronald Roesch
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Outgoing Editorial Board

Connie J. A. Beck
University of Arizona

G. Andrew H. Benjamin
University of Washington

Brian H. Bornstein
University of Nebraska

Bette L. Bottoms
University of Illinois at Chicago

Eve M. Brank
University of Nebraska

Neil Brewer
Flinders University, Australia

Stanley L. Brodsky
The University of Alabama

Roslyn M. Caldwell
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Keith Cruise
Fordham University

Shari Seidman Diamond
Northwestern University Law School and American Bar Foundation

John F. Edens
Texas A&M University

David Faigman
University of California

Mark Fondacaro
John Jay College of Criminal Justice—CUNY

Naomi E. S. Goldstein
Drexel University

Gail S. Goodman
University of California

Jane Goodman-Delahunty
Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia

Edith Greene
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Thomas Grisso
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Jennifer L. Groscup
Scripps College

Craig W. Haney
University of California, Santa Cruz

Valerie P. Hans
Cornell University Law School

Kirk Heilbrun
Drexel University

Larry Heuer
Barnard College, Columbia University

Matthew T. Huss
Creighton University

Rebecca Jackson
Palo Alto University

Daniel Krauss
Claremont McKenna College

Michael E. Lamb
University of Cambridge

Roger J. R. Levesque
Indiana University

Joel D. Lieberman
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Friedrich Lösel
University of Cambridge

Bernadette McSherry
Monash University

John Monahan
University of Virginia School of Law

Edward Mulvey
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Maureen O'Connor
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School

John Petrila
Universityof South Florida

Alex Piquero
University of Texas at Dallas

Richard E. Redding
Chapman University School of Law

Allison D. Redlich
University at Albany, State University of New York

N. Dickon Reppucci
University of Virginia

Jennifer K. Robbennolt
University of Illinois College of Law

Barry Rosenfeld
Fordham University

Randall T. Salekin
The University of Alabama

Robert F. Schopp
University of Nebraska

Regina A. Schuller
York University

Jennifer L. Skeem
University of California, Irvine

Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt University Law School

Tom Tyler
New York University

Peter J. van Koppen
Maastricht University and Free University Amsterdam

Jodi L. Viljoen
Simon Fraser University

Aldert Vrij
University of Portsmouth

Gary L. Wells
Iowa State University

Richard L. Wiener
University of Nebraska

Elizabeth C. Wiggins
Federal Judicial Center, Washington, DC

Patricia A. Zapf
John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY

Outgoing University of Miami School of Law Student Editorial Board

Vaishali Desai, Editor-in-Chief

Erica Gooden, Research Editor

Meaghan Murphy, Managing Editor

Kiyan Bigloo, Publications Editor

Sheri Tambourine, Executive Editor

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The journal encourages authors to write comprehensive pieces, rather than submitting smaller pieces to multiple journals.

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Authors should keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law^® encourages the submission by scholars of empirical studies, as well as theoretical, conceptual, and critical reviews dealing with psychology and with relevant information derived from related disciplines, law, and policy studies.

Masked Review Policy

This journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions.

MANUSCRIPTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN MICROSOFT WORD OR OPEN OFFICE FORMAT.

Each copy of the manuscript must include a separate title page with the authors' names and affiliations, and these should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript. Footnotes that identify the authors must be typed on a separate page.

Authors must make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities.

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Manuscripts may be prepared in accordance with either the psychological (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed.) or legal (The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th ed.) style manuals.

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Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 2005.
Capital Punishment in the United States
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 2004.
Pragmatic Psychology and the Law (Part II)
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 10, No. 1/2, March/June 2004.
Pragmatic Psychology and the Law (Part I)
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 9, No. 3/4, September/December 2003.
Preventive Outpatient Commitment for Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, March/June 2003.
The Other-Race Effect and Contemporary Criminal Justice
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2001.
Jury Instruction Process
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2000.
Hastening Death
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2000
Ranking Ourselves
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2000.
Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Preventive Law
Special Issues of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1999.
Sexual Harassment
Special Issues of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 1999.
Hearsay Testimony in Trials Involving Child Witnesses
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1999.
Daubert's Meanings for the Admissibility of Behavioral and Social Science Evidence
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 1999.
First Report of the APA Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1998.
Sex Offenders
Special Issue of the journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Vol. 4, No. 1/2, March/June 1998

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