| Description |
xxiv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Psychology and the law: impossible choices --2. The legal system and its players --3. Psychology of crime --4. Psychology of police --5. Crime investigation: witnesses --6. Identification and evaluation of criminal suspects --7. Between arrest and trial --8. Forensic assessment in criminal cases: competence and insanity --9. Forensic assessment in civil cases --10. The trial process --11. Jury trials I: jury representatives and selection --12. Jury trials II: concerns and reforms --13. Psychology of victims --14. Children, adolescents, and the law --15. Punishment, sentencing, and corrections |
| Summary |
The text examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. It considers such topics as competence to stand trial, pre-trial publicity and resulting changes in venue, criminal profiling, civil case law and civil procedures, the rights of children, capital punishment, the psychology of criminal trials, the insanity defence, expert forensic testimony, and analysis of eyewitness identifications |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Psychology and the legal system / Lawrence S. Wrightsman. 5th ed. 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-503) and indexes |
| Subject |
Forensic psychology.
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Justice, Administration of -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Practice of law -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Greene, Edie.
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Wrightsman, Lawrence S.
Psychology and the legal system
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| LC no. |
2007617394 |
| ISBN |
0534521061 (hard : acid-free paper) |
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