In 2001, the American Psychology Association (APA) officially recognized Forensic Psychology as being a viable concentration for some Psychology Students, particularly those in graduate level programs. The field has been around longer than that, however, which helps to demonstrate how the boundaries between fields in Psychology can become blurred with the overlap.
A Brief History of Forensic Psychology
In 1893, J. McKeen Cattell conducted some of the first experiments on testimony. His experiments included asking a series of questions, similar to those in a trial, to a group of students at Columbia University and then asking those students to grade their responses on a confidence level. The results of the inaccuracies, though expected, surprised even Cattell.
Some of the first psychological tests to screen law enforcement candidates were conducted in 1917 and in 1918 the first classification systems for inmates in prisons were developed. In 1921 an American psychologist testified as an expert witness in a courtroom, but it wasn't until the 1940s that this became more common.
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