Psychology in the courts : international advances in knowledge

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Psychology in the courts : international advances in knowledge

edited by Roland Roesch, Raymond R. Corrado and Rebecca Dempster

Psychology Press, 2013

  • : pbk

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"First issued in paperback 2013."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB1278957X
  • ISBN
    • 9780415654005
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxiii, 343 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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