Legal Psychology

Currently, the company is faced with several challenges that must answer every day: globalization and integration, the limited resources vital to ensure a normal life, increased social polarization, deepening poverty, regional military conflicts, economic recession, the phenomena extreme weather, energy crisis, population explosion.

Increasing complexity of life, the world require governments to take legislative and administrative measures in accordance with these challenges. It requires a new vision of the human condition and the needs of needs of people, on ways and means to respect human rights as essential values ​​of life human beings within a society.

From the moment man became a member of society, had to obey certain rules and regulations and laws to regulate behavior, causing them entry violation under the law. The justice designated for the purpose of safeguarding and realizing the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens and other legitimate rights and interests are magistrates.

Training of specialists who participate in the administration of justice, whose decisions have an impact on the destiny of people are under the law, must be based on a thorough knowledge of it but equally to the knowledge of human behavior, human psychological mechanisms, creature that usually act rationally, but sometimes automatically and even irrational, which may end up being the most heinous crimes commit. In this context, legal psychology is called to make diagnosis and provide qualitative and quantitative predictions of human behaviors in conflict with the legal norm.

Legal Psychology, distinct discipline of psychology, studying the genesis of crime and its prevention, deviant behavior and characteristics of tort groups, act judgmental issues involving juvenile detection, evidence, investigation, demonstration or absolve guilt, offender rehabilitation, the relationship between defendant and the Punisher, in order the magistrate armed with the information in the rule of law to them the proper application of law in letter and spirit.

It addresses all categories of professionals who participate in the administration of justice and whose decisions have an impact on human destiny are subject to the law. In this sense, psychology, legal help in understanding the mechanisms psychic magistrate of the person involved in legal drama regardless of status (author, victim or witness) and supports the magistrate to exercise self-control to avoid their psychological limitations related to nature, attitude and skill that magistrate and it gives concrete strategies and means through which these limits can and should be overcome.

To understand human behavior, conformist or deviant, for aa restrict increasingly more criminogenic potential irrationality of some members of society, the magistrate must know the limits of individual's learning, the inwardness and conformity to legal rules, limits different from individual to individual, to assess realistically the social pressures of origin of the individual and the needs and motivations that influence its specifically, to understand the resistance of individual temptations in society, which at least in part, may be incriminated as the cause of individual behavior.

Defining legal psychology as a "formative discipline applied and professional culture of the magistrate in the rule of law" Mitrofan N. (1994, 5) considers that it is to nuanced and thorough study of the human person involved in legal drama, in to obtain knowledge and able to substantiate reflect psychological laws of objectivity and interpret human behavior or criminality judicial finality. "If we want to understand the man that is ourselves, it should not look like a robot, equal to himself and his peers identical, but to recognize its native endowment inequality that people are not as conception phase genetics. Chance human being - the individual - to be unique and unrepeatable, is unrivaled beauty of coexisting temperamental and biotipologice infinite structures, characters and personalities in the social ground that potentially differentiated educability, learning and subordination in relation to the legal norm. "