This book provides a useful overview of the latest research into the interaction between psychology and the courts. Leading scholars and practitioners review recent research and practice in a number of principal areas: * adolescents in the legal system * the role of juries * competency to stand trial * conditional release * eyewitness evidence and testimony * the role of the victims.
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Provides a useful overview of the latest research into the interaction between psychology and the courts.

Invited address; Part 1: Adolescents; 1: Toward an Expanded Definition of Adolescent Competence in Legal Contexts; 2: Girls in Jail: Punishment or Protection?; 3: Are Juveniles Getting a Fair Trial?: The Jury is Still Out; Part 2: Juries; 4: Race and the Civil Jury: How Does a Juror's Race Shape the Jury Experience?; 5: Juror Competence and Processing Style in Making Sense of Complex Trial Information; 6: Effects of Criminal Motivation, Ability, and Opportunity on Mock Jurors' Verdicts; Part 3: Civil and Criminal Court; 7: Complex Medical Litigation and Hindsight Bias: Strategies to Reduce Factfinders' Retrospective Attributions of Fault; 8: A Comparison of American and Canadian Conceptualizations of Competence to Stand Trial; 9: The Macarthur Competence Assessment Tool—Fitness to Plead: Evaluation of a Research Instrument for Assessing Fitness to Plead; 10: Public Opinion, Sentencing, and Parole: International Trends; 11: The Syndrome Evidence Phenomenon: Time to Move On?; 12: Conditional Release Attitudes: Laypersons' Perceptions of the Purposes, Effectiveness, and Acceptability of Early Release by Offense Type 1; 13: Judges' Decision-Making From Within; Part 4: Eyewitness Evidence and Testimony; 14: Children's Recall of the Unfortunate Fakir: a Further Test of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview; 15: Courtroom Pressures Can Alter Eyewitness Confidence; 16: Creating Confusion: Unconscious Transference in Media Crime Reporting; 17: The Discrimination of Deceptive, Mistaken, and Truthful Witness Testimony; 18: Previous Exposure to the Sender's Behavior and Accuracy at Judging Credibility; 19: The Influence of Personal Characteristics, Stakes and Lie Complexity on the Accuracy and Confidence to Detect Deceit 1; Part 5: Victims of Crime; 20: The Role of Social Influence in Crime Victim's Decision to Notify the Police; 21: Structured Trauma Writing (STW) as a Victim-Supportive Intervention: Examining the Efficacy of Emotional Ventilation and Downward Writing 1

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415654005
Publisert
2013-04-12
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
680 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Biografisk notat

Ronald Roesch, Raymond R. Corrado, Rebecca Dempster