FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY IN CORPORATE SECTOR

MEANING OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY…….

• FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY IS THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

• IT INVOLVES UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL LAW IN THE RELEVANT JURISDICTIONS.

• IT IS THE APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS,CONCEPTS AND SKILLS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF LEGAL AND CRIMIANAL JUSTICE SYSTEM..

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY IN CORPORATE SECTOR:• Forensic psychology application is a big business today.

• Its application can be done in Educational settings, counselling and guidance, and in an organisational setting etc..,

• Business organisations are the one area where forensic psychology finds tremendous application.

TYPES OF CRIMES IN CORPORATE SECTOR• WHITE COLLAR CRIMES• BLUE COLLAR CRIMES• CORPORATE CRIME• STATE CORPORATE CRIME• ORGANISED TRANSISTIONAL CRIME• OCCUPATIONAL CRIME• OCCUPATIONAL DEATH

INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN FINDING WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS• CENTRAL bureau OF INVESTIGATION• Securities and Exchange Commission• Internal Revenue Service• NATION’s Treasury• Citizenship and Immigration Service

DEFENSES FOR A WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS• Entrapment is a common defense in white-collar crime cases in which

law enforcement officials have coerced a defendant into committing a criminal act that he or she otherwise would not have committed. • Absence of intent is yet another common defense in white-collar

prosecutions. Because intent is an inherent part of most white-collar crimes, if your attorney can convince the prosecutors or a judge that you lacked the intent to commit a crime, a favorable outcome may be realized.

AMBUSH INTERVIEW

• An "ambush interview" is a technique where agents use to conduct an interrogation without going to the trouble of obtaining a warrant or arresting you.• Here is a typical scenario: Two FBI agents show up at your office

unannounced. They state that they need some information and would appreciate it if you could help them out. Not wishing to appear uncooperative, you agree. The meeting starts out friendly and low-key. They begin by asking seemingly harmless questions about your company. One agent does the talking; the other takes notes and says nothing.

POLYGRAPH

• Target letter• PRE TEST INTERVIEW• TEST INTERVIEW• POST TEST INTERVIEW

Application of forensic psychology in an organisational setting…

• Psychological tests in an organisation can be done mainly at two stages:

a) Pre-employment phaseb) Employment stage

PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHASE..

• It can be said that an interview in which the interviewer tests the suitability of the candidate for that job.• The interview can be of both formal and informal i.e.., the interviewer

can ask the questions that are relevant to the job or he may ask irrelavant questions.• Successful candidates can be assessed by using psychological tests for

their cognitive skills, ethical values. • By this the organisation can know the mind-sets of various candidates

and can choose best among the alternatives.

EMPLOYMENT PHASE…..

• It includes performance appraisals,leadership training etc...,• Psychological tests and various rating scales are very useful

instruments for the performance appraisal of various employees.• The appraisals can be of both formal and informal.• It includes psychological tests which results in management

development, leadership development training, etc..,

TWO PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS

1. MYRES-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR (MBTI)

2. EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT TEST (EQ)

1.Myres-Briggs type indicator

• It is a personality inventory that was developed by Isabel Briggs Myres and his mother Katherine c. Briggs.

• It is based on carl jung’s theory of psychological types.

• The purpose of MBTI is to make a theory of psychological types understandable and useful in people’s life.

Process of MBTI• The test consists of 93 items and is applicable to persons aged 14 and

over.• Based on Jung’s theory these 93 items measure 4 different bipolar

continuums-1.Extraversion-Introversion, 2.Sensing-Intuition, 3.Thinking-Feeling, 4.Judging-Perceiving.• Items of the test are arranged in four parts, all of which have varying

number of items.• It is a very popular test and more than three million people are

administered MBTI every year.• It is used to study areas like communication, conflict, leadership,

customer relationship, change etc…,

INFP PRINCIPLE• Based on various experiments conducted by Myres briggs, he

concluded that people with Introversion, intuition ,feeling and perceiving (INFP) have an inner core of values that guides their interactions and decisions.• They want to be involved in work that contributes to both their own

growth and organisational growth.• They will have a purpose beyond their paycheck.• They are likely to be sensitive, concerned, caring, idealistic,loyal to his

ideas, curious, creative.

2.EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT (EQ) TEST……• It was developed by prof.N.K.Chandra.• It is a test to evaluate Emotional intelligence of an employee i.e..,the

ability of an individual to appropriately and successfully respond to a vast emotional stimuli.• The test has been designed in such a way that it measures all the

three Emotional dimensions.• This test is standardised for professional managers, businessmen,

bureaucrats.

EQ Test Process….• The test consists of 22 situational items with four alternatives for each

of them.• The EQ test has a test-retest and split half reliability of 0.94 and 0.89.• These test items measure three emotional dimensions-1.Sensitivity,

2.Competence 3.Emotional maturity.• Items 2,8,16,17,22 measure Emotional sensitivity, items

4,6,9,11,12,18,21 measure Emotional maturity, items 1,3,5,7,10,13,14,15,19,20 measure Emotional competence.• Each item is given with 4 options.• There are no right or wrong, but it measures the accuracy of the

question.

Sample items from the test….

• 3.At the work place, due to some misunderstanding, your collegues stop talking to you, you are convinced that there was no fault of your’s. How will you react?

A. Wait till they come and start talking to you again.

B. Take the initiative, go forward and start talking to them.

C. Let things take their own time to improve.

D. Ask someone to mediate.

• 18.While having an argument with someone, if you lose, you

A. Feel totally beaten.

B. Wait for the next opportunity to beat your opponents.

C. Winning and losing are a part of the game.

D. Analyse the reasons for the loss.

Qualitative Analysis of EQ

• The test is measured in terms of percentiles of Three Emotional dimensions. PERCENTILE INTERPRETATION

P-90 Extremely high EQ

P-75 High EQ

P-50 Moderate EQ

P-40 Low EQ

P-20 Try the test some other day