Ethics, Psychology, and Public Policy

An introduction to the Journal of Forensic Psychology's new section on "Ethics, Psychology, and Public Policy," this essay outlines the contours that characterize the interrelationship between ethics, psychology, and public policy. Offering a broad and inclusive framework for understanding this interrelationship, it lays out and comments upon several spheres of analysis - the practical/professional, law, lawmaking, and public policy, justice and social justice, and general ethical problems - within which morality meets with concerns of forensic psychology.