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Your work as a forensic psychologist will mainly relate to the assessment and treatment of criminal behaviour. You'll work not only with prisoners and offenders, but also other professionals involved in the judicial and penal systems, and with victims of crime.

While you will be involved in criminal profiling, your role will stretch far beyond this. You'll be heavily involved in providing research-based evidence to develop policy and working practices, and you'll give evidence in court and advise parole boards and mental health tribunals. Your work will help to rehabilitate prisoners and you'll get the chance to support and train other staff.

Types of forensic psychology
You'll mainly work within HM Prison Service but may find work in:

probation services;
NHS and private hospitals;
police service;
social services;
higher education institutions.
Responsibilities
The core part of working with offenders focuses on therapy in forensic settings where your tasks will involve:

carrying out one-to-one assessments, often to assess the risk of re-offending (e.g. for lifers being released into the community or sex offenders after a treatment programme) or of suicide, self-harm or other high-risk behaviour;
developing, implementing and reviewing appropriate offender treatment and rehabilitation programmes, including anger management, treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, and social and cognitive skills training;
undertaking research projects to evaluate situations affecting prisoners, e.g. investigating the impact of bullying in prisons or effectiveness of an anger management programme;
undertaking statistical analysis for forensic client profiling;
delivering training to support forensic staff in areas such as stress management, or training on how to cope with understanding bullying and techniques for crisis (hostage) negotiation;
providing expert witness testimony at court, for parole boards and mental health tribunals;
contributing to policy and strategy development to ensure continuous service improvement.
You may be involved in:

working with victims of crime and the general public in relation to their fear around crime;
conducting applied research;
designing and delivering training;
organisational consultancy.
Working hours
As a forensic psychologist you'll usually work 9am to 5pm, with some flexibility required. Evening and weekend work may occasionally be needed, for example if you're running groups at the weekend or in the evening but you should typically work a 37-hour week.

What to expect
This can be a stressful job as you'll be working in challenging situations with prisoners or ex-offenders who may not want to be helped. There may be a small amount of personal risk and you'll need to be resilient.
Working environments vary. In prisons, for example, you'll need to acclimatise to noise and lock-up procedures. Category A institutions impose camera observation and entry searches, as can other forensic settings.
Job-share and part-time working options are possible and you may be able to take a career break depending on the employer. With experience, it might be possible to become self-employed or carry out freelance work if you were to progress into consultancy.
Jobs are available across the UK. Some locations are difficult to access without your own transport. Travel for work and nights away are occasionally needed. Overseas work or travel is uncommon.


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Your work as a forensic psychologist will mainly relate to the assessment and treatment of criminal behaviour. You'll work not only with prisoners and offenders, but also other professionals involved in the judicial and penal systems, and with victims of crime.

While you will be involved in criminal profiling, your role will stretch far beyond this. You'll be heavily involved in providing research-based evidence to develop policy and working practices, and you'll give evidence in court and advise parole boards and mental health tribunals. Your work will help to rehabilitate prisoners and you'll get the chance to support and train other staff.

Types of forensic psychology
You'll mainly work within HM Prison Service but may find work in:

probation services;
NHS and private hospitals;
police service;
social services;
higher education institutions.
Responsibilities
The core part of working with offenders focuses on therapy in forensic settings where your tasks will involve:

carrying out one-to-one assessments, often to assess the risk of re-offending (e.g. for lifers being released into the community or sex offenders after a treatment programme) or of suicide, self-harm or other high-risk behaviour;
developing, implementing and reviewing appropriate offender treatment and rehabilitation programmes, including anger management, treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, and social and cognitive skills training;
undertaking research projects to evaluate situations affecting prisoners, e.g. investigating the impact of bullying in prisons or effectiveness of an anger management programme;
undertaking statistical analysis for forensic client profiling;
delivering training to support forensic staff in areas such as stress management, or training on how to cope with understanding bullying and techniques for crisis (hostage) negotiation;
providing expert witness testimony at court, for parole boards and mental health tribunals;
contributing to policy and strategy development to ensure continuous service improvement.
You may be involved in:

working with victims of crime and the general public in relation to their fear around crime;
conducting applied research;
designing and delivering training;
organisational consultancy.
Working hours
As a forensic psychologist you'll usually work 9am to 5pm, with some flexibility required. Evening and weekend work may occasionally be needed, for example if you're running groups at the weekend or in the evening but you should typically work a 37-hour week.

What to expect
This can be a stressful job as you'll be working in challenging situations with prisoners or ex-offenders who may not want to be helped. There may be a small amount of personal risk and you'll need to be resilient.
Working environments vary. In prisons, for example, you'll need to acclimatise to noise and lock-up procedures. Category A institutions impose camera observation and entry searches, as can other forensic settings.
Job-share and part-time working options are possible and you may be able to take a career break depending on the employer. With experience, it might be possible to become self-employed or carry out freelance work if you were to progress into consultancy.
Jobs are available across the UK. Some locations are difficult to access without your own transport. Travel for work and nights away are occasionally needed. Overseas work or travel is uncommon.


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In Scots Law, Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh (1953) provides authority that where a witness has particular knowledge or skills in an area being examined by the court, and has been called to court in order to elaborate on that area for the benefit of the court, that witness may give evidence of his opinion on that area.[3]

Role of expert witnesses

Typically, experts are relied on for opinions on severity of injury, degree of sanity, cause of failure in a machine or other device, loss of earnings, care costs, and the like. In an intellectual property case, an expert may be shown two music scores, book texts, or circuit boards and asked to ascertain their degree of similarity. In the majority of cases the expert's personal relation to the defendant is considered irrelevant.

The tribunal itself, or the judge, can in some systems call upon experts to technically evaluate a certain fact or action, in order to provide the court with a complete knowledge on the fact/action it is judging. The expertise has the legal value of an acquisition of data. The results of these experts are then compared to those by the experts of the parties.

The expert has a heavy responsibility, especially in penal trials, and perjury by an expert is a severely punished crime in most countries. The use of expert witnesses is sometimes criticized in the United States because in civil trials, they are often used by both sides to advocate differing positions, and it is left up to a jury to decide which expert witness to believe. Although experts are legally prohibited from expressing their opinion of submitted evidence until after they are hired, sometimes a party can surmise beforehand, because of reputation or prior cases, that the testimony will be favorable regardless of any basis in the submitted data; such experts are commonly disparaged as "hired guns."[4][5]


Federal Rules of Evidence - 2011 | Federal Evidence Review
Jump up ^ Black's Law Dictionary, articles "Evidence", "Expert", "Witness"
Jump up ^ Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh 1953 SC 34
Jump up ^ Snow, J.N., & Weed, R. (1997). Mental health forensic issues in Georgia: The role of the expert witness. Georgia Journal of Professional Counselors, 53-65.
Jump up ^ Snow, J.N. & Weed, R. (1996). Forensic issues in mental health: The role of the expert witness. Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, 7(4), 2-13.]]>
In Scots Law, Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh (1953) provides authority that where a witness has particular knowledge or skills in an area being examined by the court, and has been called to court in order to elaborate on that area for the benefit of the court, that witness may give evidence of his opinion on that area.[3]

Role of expert witnesses

Typically, experts are relied on for opinions on severity of injury, degree of sanity, cause of failure in a machine or other device, loss of earnings, care costs, and the like. In an intellectual property case, an expert may be shown two music scores, book texts, or circuit boards and asked to ascertain their degree of similarity. In the majority of cases the expert's personal relation to the defendant is considered irrelevant.

The tribunal itself, or the judge, can in some systems call upon experts to technically evaluate a certain fact or action, in order to provide the court with a complete knowledge on the fact/action it is judging. The expertise has the legal value of an acquisition of data. The results of these experts are then compared to those by the experts of the parties.

The expert has a heavy responsibility, especially in penal trials, and perjury by an expert is a severely punished crime in most countries. The use of expert witnesses is sometimes criticized in the United States because in civil trials, they are often used by both sides to advocate differing positions, and it is left up to a jury to decide which expert witness to believe. Although experts are legally prohibited from expressing their opinion of submitted evidence until after they are hired, sometimes a party can surmise beforehand, because of reputation or prior cases, that the testimony will be favorable regardless of any basis in the submitted data; such experts are commonly disparaged as "hired guns."[4][5]


Federal Rules of Evidence - 2011 | Federal Evidence Review
Jump up ^ Black's Law Dictionary, articles "Evidence", "Expert", "Witness"
Jump up ^ Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh 1953 SC 34
Jump up ^ Snow, J.N., & Weed, R. (1997). Mental health forensic issues in Georgia: The role of the expert witness. Georgia Journal of Professional Counselors, 53-65.
Jump up ^ Snow, J.N. & Weed, R. (1996). Forensic issues in mental health: The role of the expert witness. Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting, 7(4), 2-13.]]>