Introducing psychology to the justice system in Taiwan

In early 2017, the Taiwanese president called for a series of national conferences on judicial reform aimed at generating propositions to address existing problems and gaps in the legal system. The current authors were the only psychologists elected to join the discussions, which resulted in three propositions based on theory and research in psychology and law. This chapter describes the problems these propositions attempt to address, the relevant government agencies’ response to these propositions, and how the field of psychology and law has developed only very recently in Taiwan.