Disciplinary Perspectives of Legal Psychology

Legal psychology is a theoretical science, but also a highly practical applied science. The current development of legal psychology has two directions: one is to theoretically explore in the new socialist century to strengthen the legal system under the conditions of people's social behavior, personality psychological characteristics of the law, development and change; the second is to explore the theory of legal psychology for the guidance of the social practice of the effective methods and approaches. Since legal psychology is the study of legal education, the implementation of the legal system and the rule of law in the process of people's psychological phenomena and the laws of activity, it is necessary to study in depth how the socialist legal system has an impact on the individual psychology, and how the individual adapts to the socialist legal environment. Further, legal psychology is to study how the macroscopic socialist legal system structure and environment through the micro social and economic life on the individual impact, and how the individual socialist legal system environment into subjective consciousness; at the same time, it is also necessary to study how the individual through the micro social and economic life of the socialist legal system to reflect the role of the environment. Only by revealing the law of individual psychological activities in depth, can we establish a real scientific theory system to better guide the practice of social construction of the legal system and fully demonstrate its value.

Any science must have three interrelated purposes, namely, foresight, control and understanding. Foresight is the ability to predict the course of future events; control is the ability to shape the course of those events. Understanding is the ability to elucidate the occurrence and change of these events. In many fields of science, foresight and control often precede complete and extensive understanding, and in fact, for any science, complete understanding of the object of study is extremely important, and only with true understanding can there be better foresight to anticipate and effective control. And to realize the understanding of an object of study depends on comprehensive and extensive theoretical development. Legal psychology to carry out theoretical research, fully understand people's various social and legal psychology of the subjective and objective reasons for the emergence, development and change, in order to establish a theoretical system, in order to achieve the purpose of anticipation and control of people's legal psychology. The fundamental task of legal psychology lies in applying its theoretical results to the actual life of the society, serving the construction of socialist legal system, the current reform and opening up, the establishment of socialist legal environment, and the construction of socialist market economy. As a matter of fact, the tasks that legal psychology can solve can be found in many fields, and it can serve a wide range of social practices. In industrial and mining enterprises, it is needed to help adjust the industrial structure, improve the management level of managers, and reduce the interpersonal conflicts within the enterprise in order to improve the production efficiency; in commerce, it helps to improve the commercial ethics, promote the commodity trading, and at the same time guides the advertisement and propaganda, and understands the market trend and the consumers' requirements and opinions on the commodities and so on. In building a legal environment for the development of market economy, it can promote people to follow the law, comply with the law, enforce the law strictly, and punish those who violate the law. At the same time, it is conducive to promoting judicial reform, strengthening supervision of the legal system, ensuring judicial justice, promoting legal education, enhancing the legal awareness of the entire population, mobilizing the strength of all aspects of society, and strengthening the comprehensive management of social security; the implementation of the "rule of law" basic strategy, the construction of socialist democracy, the development of the socialist market economy, and the construction of the socialist spirit, maintaining social stability and the country's national security, as well as the development of a socialist market economy. Spirit, to maintain social stability and the country's long-term peace and security, legal psychology has an extremely important role.

Legal psychology plays a role in real life, but also will surely advance its own development and promote the development of the two socialist civilizations. As legal psychology, to fulfill the above tasks in both theory and practice, must be oriented to society, close contact with social life. On the one hand, the basic theory and basic knowledge of legal psychology to solve practical problems, on the other hand, can be summarized and refined from the regularity of things, in order to enrich and develop the theory of legal psychology, so as to make it more consciously, comprehensively and systematically play a role in social practice.