Research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP)

CLIP (Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology) is a research unit within the area of forensic psychology. CLIP was established in 2000 and is situated at the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

What's on?

CLIP member nominated for research award

The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences has instituted an annual award to an outstanding young researcher in psychology. Gothenburg candidate for 2012 is Emma Roos af Hjelmsäter. Read more here

CLIP's PhD students involved in international journal work

PhD student Lisa Öhman has been invited to guest edit a special edition of Psychology, Crime & Law. PhD student Rebecca Willén has been invited to be a member of the Student Editorial Board for Law & Human Behavior.

Research evaluation for development of research 2010 (RED10)

The quality of CLIP’s research was rated as “excellent to outstanding”, and the research team as being "very productive and conduct research which has a high international impact and is innovative in nature”.
Read more here

Best Poster Award

CLIP member Helen Alfredsson won the poster award, first place, ($250) at the joint AP-LS/EAPL/ANZAPPL conference in Miami, Florida, with her poster titled: "Perpetrator characteristics, participants' gender and belief in a just world influencing rape blame attributions."
The award was presented by the EAPL Student Society. Congratulations!

Special Issue on Psychology and Law

Current Directions in Psychological Science 20:4, 2011

This issue of Current Directions presents the latest research on topics such as: police investigations, eyewitness memory, suspect confessions, risk assessment, selecting jurors, psychologists as expert witnesses, jury decision making, and judicial decision making. Read it here!

New book on legal psychology

Academics and researchers from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland) have made a particularly strong contribution internationally to the rapidly developing disciplines of forensic and legal psychology. This book brings together the leading authorities in the field to look systematically at the central issues and concerns of their subject, looking at both investigative psychology and psychology in court.