American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, March 7-9

The preliminary program is available.

The program includes research on
-mental health issues (risk factors for crime? risk factors for people who have victimized?) 
-developmental issues (children as victims? juvenile offenders?) -cognitive issues (eyewitness perception and memory?) 
-social issues (e.g., how jurors deal with hate crime cases?) and more. 

It's a great and wide-ranging conference. There is going to be a presentation by Justice Martha Walters, from the Oregon Supreme Court Saturday at 10:45. Justice Walters will probably be discussing the Court's ruling in State v. Lawson. This remarkable ruling has now established Oregon as having the most progressive, most sophisticated, rules on eye-witness identification in the U.S. The ruling also includes a clear and energetic endorsement of psychological science, and emphasizes the important role of psychological research in guiding the Courts and in shaping judicial procedures!! If you're curious to know more about this case, see below.

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 For more info on the Court's Lawson ruling, see http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Oregon_Supreme_Court_Establishes_New_Procedures_to_Determine_the_Admissibility_of_Eyewitness_Identification_Evidence.php
If you want to know more about this fascinating trial, and how exactly psychology research persuaded the Oregon justice system, talk to Dan! Or, for another glimpse of the case, check out: http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2012/top-oregon-court-overhauls-eyewitness-id-rules--.html

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