The law, faced today by increasingly intricate problems of human adjustment brought about by a social environment ever growing in complexity, requires all the help that can be derived from modern psychology. In the administration of the law the humanistic point of view is presumed to be in control. The weighty task of distributing justice to the members of society presents an unsurpassed challenge that demands a breaking down of artificial barriers erected by tradition between the law and a psychology bent on carrying out its researches under a social and scientific attitude. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)