METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY: TRENDS THROUGH THE DIACHRONIC PRISM
Abstract
This article analyzes trends in the development of forensic psychology on the basis of methodological approaches that are recognized as priority at different stages of the development of science. Established, that the specificity of forensic psychology is due to its dual, binary, integrative and applied character. Prediction of further development is based on the necessity of changes in activity-and the personal approach that is determined by the transformation of modern Ukrainian society. Conducted research is based on the use of the instrumental elements of system analysis, unification of synchrony and diachrony. Revealed that to date has not taken all reasonable description of the subject, the object, the structure of forensic psychology. It is assumed that for forensic psychology as a science perspective are: coverage area of study of all stakeholders, going beyond the correlation only with the criminal process, including in the study of psychological phenomena objects of civil, administrative, arbitration, and other processes, as well as broad integration with such branches psychology as social, gender, ethnic psychology.
Keywords: forensic psychology, legal psychology, research methodology, synchronic, diachronic, function prediction in science, the activity approach, personal approach, psychology judicial activities
Accepted: 02.03.2014
Reviewed: 15.03.2014
Published: 28.04.2014
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