Psychology and the legal system
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Psychology and the legal system
Brooks/Cole, c1994
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-502) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the third edition of this text, focusing on the tensions in the field, challenging students to think beyond the concrete facts to the ethical, moral, legal and psychological grey areas of law. The text is organized around four dilemmas that face the legal system: the rights of individuals versus the common good; equality versus discretion; to discover the truth or to resolve conflicts; science versus the law as a source of decisions. Examples from actua1 cases illustrate concepts.
Table of Contents
- Psychology and the law - impossible choices
- Psychologists and the legal system
- Legality, morality and justice
- Lawyers - socialization, training and ethics
- Theories of crime
- The police and the criminal justice system
- Crime investigation: eyewitnesses
- Identification and evaluation of criminal suspects
- The rights of victims and the rights of the accused
- Between arrest and trial
- Competence in the lega1 system
- The trial process
- Jury trials I: jury representation and selection
- Jury trials II: Assumptions and reforms
- Rape: rapists and victims
- Insanity and the law
- The rights of special groups
- punishment and sentencing
- The appellate process and the supreme court. (Each chapter concludes with a summary.)
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