NCJ Number
132319
Journal
Behavioral Sciences and the Law Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Dated: (Summer 1990) Pages: 249-262
Date Published
1990
Length
14 pages
Annotation
Although interdisciplinary training in behavioral sciences and the law should be appropriate for criminal justice training, adopting such an interdisciplinary goal may be problematic because of current divisions in the types of educational curricula.
Abstract
Other factors which may hinder the implementation of this type of training that examines the impact of the behavioral sciences on the criminal justice and legal systems are the relationships between the criminal justice academic community and the profession, and between the behavioral sciences and present criminal justice policies. For interdisciplinary training to be relevant, the academic community needs to reconsider the accepted criminal justice curricula which should, at a minimum, include a course designed to provide familiarity with the interdisciplinary uses of the law and the behavioral sciences in criminal justice policy formulation and analysis. 55 references (Author abstract modified)