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Training in law and behavioral sciences: Issues from the criminal justice perspective
Author(s) -
Wallace Donald H.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2370080307
Subject(s) - criminal justice , perspective (graphical) , curriculum , theory of criminal justice , relevance (law) , behavioural sciences , economic justice , criminal law , criminology , political science , psychology , training (meteorology) , engineering ethics , law , sociology , engineering , computer science , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , physics , meteorology
Interdisciplinary training in behavioral sciences and the law should be appropriate for a criminal justice education program. However, adopting such an interdisciplinary goal is problematic because the divisions in the types of educational curricula need to be confronted. The relationships of the criminal justice academic community with the profession, and of the behavioral sciences with present criminal justice policies, must also be addressed in the attempt to develop familiarity with behavioral sciences and their legal relevance in shaping the criminal justice system. These factors may hinder extensive implementation of such training. Suggestions are made for incorporating this raining in a criminal justice curriculum.