Legal psychology in the twenty-first century.

<bold>Background: </bold>This paper examines some of the major topics that legal psychology began to focus on at the end of the last century.<bold>Aim: </bold>The purpose is to contend that such topics (the reliability of ear-witness testimony, the conducting of identification parades/line ups, the interviewing of suspects, the interviewing of vulnerable witnesses/victims) are deserving of greater attention in this new century.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Legal psychologists should be brave enough to research with methodological rigour complex, real-world topics of importance to society and to advise relevant professional groups on how to improve their performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]