About Lindsey
Lindsey E. Wylie is a 2015 graduate of the J.D./Ph.D. Social Psychology Program. She is currently a Court Research Associate at the National Center for State Courts . She received her B.S. in psychology from the University of Florida in 2005, her M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2007.
Her research interests include understanding the legal system’s therapeutic and anti-therapeutic impact on vulnerable populations, including people with mental illness, juveniles and emerging adults, and older adults. She also examines the relationship between law and policy and biases towards these groups. Her current work includes applying behavioral science to improving court text notification programs, improving competency to stand trial court case processing, improving court monitoring of guardianship cases, evaluating and generating performance measures for problem-solving courts, and providing technical assistance to jurisdictions on issues unique to juveniles and emerging adults. Prior to working at NCSC, Lindsey worked as a Research Faculty and Director of Research at the Juvenile Justice Institute, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she was instrumental in the Evidence-based Nebraska project.She has taught classes in research methods, social psychology, law and psychology, aging issues within the law, and juvenile justice, and is authoring a textbook with Eve Brank titled “Psychology, Aging, and the Criminal Justice System” for the American Psychology and Law Society’s APA Book Series. Lindsey is currently the American Psychology and Law Society’s web-editor and served as the 2018 American Psychology and Law Society’s 2018 Conference Co-chair.
When Lindsey is not delving into important research for the state courts, she enjoys running, traveling, eating Cuban food, watching independent films, listening to 90’s hip hop, hanging out with her dogs Holmes and Watson, and enjoying time with her kids.