Psychology, Public Policy, and Law is a unique policy-focused journal that provides a widely read forum for contributions of psychology and related disciplines to public policy analysis and legal issues (and vice versa).
Its multi-disciplinary audience includes psychology researchers and practitioners as well as legal scholars, judges, and public policy analysts working at the interface of the three fields.
The journal is published by the American Psychological Association to facilitate scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field.
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).
The journal uniquely provides peer review, scientific and legal input, and editorial guidance from psychologists and lawyers.
Through publication in a single forum, it focuses the attention of scholarly, public policy, and legal audiences on such work.
In addition to empirical reports of original research, we encourage submissions in the form of conceptual, theoretical, procedural, or legal reviews.
Every published article is included in APA PsycInfo® and APA PsycArticles®, the world’s most comprehensive and widely used psychological databases, as well as in LexisNexis, the key legal database. Published articles are thus available to a global audience of over 4,000 institutions and 80 million potential users and this may account for its high and rising impact.
Submit a manuscript to Psychology, Public Policy, and Law through the Manuscript Submission Portal.
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