Forensic Psychology: The First Attempt at a Retrospective Bibliography

Abstract

Forensic psychology has been an independent scientific discipline for a long time now and has become an integral part of legal proceedings. Its relevance as an area of theory and practice has led to writing multiple works on the topic. At the same time, information regarding them was fragmented. The publication of a unified bibliographic index for forensic psychology compiled by Irkutsk forensic scientists N.N. Kitaev and V.N. Kitaeva [Forensic psychological examination and forensic examinations with the participation of a psychologist: Bibliographic Index, 1901–2016. Irkutsk: BSU, 2018. 166 p.] was well-timed. This has been the first experience in compilation a bibliography on forensic psychological examination in Russia. The index provides insight into the level of development of this scientific field and highlights the issues that have not been studied sufficiently or have not been developed at all. It also addresses the pressing issue of systematisation of the literature on forensic psychological examination and is a scientific reference guide and an educational tool at the same time.The article discusses the index in detail, makes remarks and observations about its content and structure, comments on some of the features of the text. A hope that the compilers will continue the work on the index improving the methods of collecting and selecting publications, expanding the bibliographic list and developing and refining its structure and categorization is expressed.

Keywords

• forensic psychology
• forensic psychological examination
• bibliographic index
• retrospective bibliography