Contact Information
Office: UH 1880B
Phone: 419-530-2352
Fax: 419-530-8479
Email: kamala.london@utoledo.edu
Background Information
PhD, University of Wyoming, 2001
Postdoctoral fellowship, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 2001-2005
Research Interests
Forensic developmental psychology
Autobiographical memory and suggestibility in children
Disclosure of child maltreatment (including human trafficking)
Statistics
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Kamala London developed an interest in juvenile justice while working for several years during college as a police intern at the Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan. She received her PhD in 2001 in Developmental Psychology with a minor in Statistics from the University of Wyoming. From 2001-2005, she was a fellow in forensic psychology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division before joining the faculty at the University of Toledo in 2005.
Dr. London’s work focuses on using developmental science to improve how children and adolescents are handled in the justice system. She has authored over 40 scientific articles and book chapters in the area of developmental and forensic psychology. Dr. London serves on the editorial boards of Psychology, Public Policy & the Law and Law and Human Behavior. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. She also has co-authored two statistics books.
Dr. London has testified as an expert witness for both the prosecution and the defense throughout the United States, in U.S. military court, and in Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. Her work has been cited in several cases before the United States Supreme Court and in many state-level courts. She has been invited to give training to law enforcement agencies and forensic psychologists in the U.S. and abroad including in Germany and the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. London occasionally works for groups that represent falsely accused people such as the Innocence Project. She was featured an 2021 Emmy award-winning docuseries on Showtime called Outcry which highlights a young man who was falsely convicted and later released due to police misconduct.
University of Toledo Children's Memory Lab 