Legal Psychology
Short description
Most people want to see a well-functioning justice system, and feel confident that crimes are investigated effectively and objectively, that the guilty are held accountable, that innocent suspects are exonerated, and that victims of crime receive the support they need. In order to achieve these goals, extensive efforts are required. The Research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP) makes an important contribution to a more secure society by their research on various legal psychological topics.
Our aim is to conduct research that contributes to psychological theory as well as being applicable to the legal system. The research group Research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP) has, since 2000, conducted research a on a broad range of topics, unified by a direct applied relevance for the legal system. The findings have influenced legal reform work in several countries, and some of the investigative tools that our research has developed are being used by investigators worldwide. One example is the which was developed by the research group in collaboration with Swedish and international police. The technique is currently taught to interrogators in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA.
CLIP has close and continuous contact with various authorities and organizations. This direct contact is a prerequisite for the research results to be put into practice. We have carried out many collaborations with, and seminars for, personnel within the Police Agency, the Prosecutor's Office, police academies, the Swedish Judicial Academy, the Swedish Judicial Academy, the Children's Ombudsman, the Crime Victims' Agency, the Tax Agency, the Security Police et cetera. One example of a collaborative project is the one that CLIP carried out together with the Swedish Migration Agency, in which we developed , to help caseworkers evaluate the credibility of asylum seekers' stories.
Scientific publications
Where are the boys? Gender differences in child sexual abuse victims' possibilities to advance within the legal system
What did you say? The effect of the use of an interpreter on the quality of investigative child interviews
Maximizing information gain through amplified rapport: Utilizing shared activity in intelligence interviews
Advancing the Shift-of-Strategy Approach
Violation of children鈥檚 integrity: Children's voices and the legal handling of cases where children witnessed crimes between relatives
Pictures as communication support in child forensic interviews
Full professors
- P盲r Anders Granhag
Witness psychology, lie detection, reliability and credibility assessments, interview and interrogation methodology
Investigative psychology, social cognition, research method
Reliability and credibility assessments, sexual crimes, memory, children's testimonies, investigative interviewing
Associate professors
- Timothy Luke
Interview and interrogation methodology, lie detection, statistics, research method, open science
Senior lecturers/researchers
Investigative interviewing, memory, children's testimonies- Sofia Calderon
The psychology of lying, social cognition, replication studies
Memory, children's testimonies, legal decision-making
PhD students
- Lina Nystr枚m
Investigative interviewing, legal decision-making - Charlotte L枚fgren
Children's testimony, legal decision-making, reliability and credibility judgments, memory - Linnea Koponen
Children's testimony, Investigative interviewing, Picture support, interpreter-mediated interviews - Naiara Ferreira Vieira Castello
Early oral evidence