Introduction to special issue: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (Behavioral Sciences and the Law)

Authors

• Alan Tomkins, University of NebraskaFollow
• David Carson, University of Southampton

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

October 1997

Comments

Published in Behavioral Sciences and the Law 15 (1997), pp. 229-231. Copyright © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Used by permission.

Abstract

There is a dearth of behavioral-sciences-and-law (bsl) scholarship that employs an international, comparative, or cross-cultural perspective. Traditionally, bsl scholarship is national in its orientation. Thus, it is quite pleasing to have assembled five articles for this “Special Issue on International Perspectives” that address bsl issues from a nontraditional perspective. The four core articles (there also is a “Special Perspective” that the Issue Editors have contributed) in the Special Issue represent the kinds of research, theorizing, and writing that can open the horizons and expand the boundaries of traditional scholarship in the bsl area.