This is a reminder for you to submit articles to the EAPL-S special edition of the journal "Psychology Crime and Law"!

Call for papers: PCL Special Edition

Students in Psychology and Law

Psychology, Crime and Law is pleased to announce a forthcoming special issue showcasing student research in psychology and law. Accompanying Prof. Peter van Koppen, Julia Shaw (PhD Candidate) and Lisa Öhman (PhD Candidate) will be featured as graduate student guest editors on this special issue.

The discipline of psychology and law has been attracting an increasing number of students over the past decade. With this rapid increase in the student body come the challenges of growing and developing high quality programs around the world, and maintaining a sense of international community. By providing a special issue of Psychology, Crime and law, the European Association of Psychology and Law hopes to call attention to high-quality student research and facilitate student involvement in the field.

This call for papers invites contributions by students who hold primary authorship on research manuscripts.

Click here for the official call for papers.

Submissions are due January 15th, 2012.

Psychology, Crime and Law promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to crime, criminal and civil law, and the influence of law on behavior. We particularly welcome articles that address one or more of the following themes, although we will consider other contributions that examine issues of direct relevance to students in psychology and law:

• Etiology of criminal behavior and studies of different offender groups
• Crime detection, for example, interrogation and witness testimony
• Courtroom studies in areas such as jury behavior, decision making, divorce and custody, and expert testimony
• Behavior of litigants, lawyers, judges, and court officers, both in and outside the courtroom
• Issues of offender management including prisons, probation, and rehabilitation initiatives
• Studies of public interest, including the victim, reactions to crime and the legal process.
• Reviews and brief reports which make a significant contribution to the psychology of law, crime and legal behavior

We are also looking to commission papers on the following student-specific topics:

• The importance of publishing
• Experiences or accounts of professionals working in the field
• International growth of the discipline of Psychology and Law (forensic psychology)
• The professional and student rankings of international Psyc-law programs

All contributions should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcl by January 15th, 2012. When submitting, please select the box on the submission form indicating that you would like your submission to be considered for this special issue.

For further guidance you should refer to the standard manuscript submission guidelines for authors on the Psychology, Crime and Law webpage: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1068-316x&linktype=44

All submissions will be subject to the journal’s standard peer-review processes. This will include initial editor screening (all submissions) and anonymous refereeing by at least two independent referees.