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Title Handbook of psychology in legal contexts / edited by Ray Bull and David Carson
Published Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, [1995]
©1995

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Description xvi, 678 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: About the Editors. -- List of Contributors. -- Preface. -- Introduction: Psychology and Law: A Subdiscipline, an Interdisciplinary Collaboration or a Project? (D. Carson). -- Part 1: Psychological Assessments For The Courts. -- 1.1 Adults' Capacity to Make Legal Decisions (Glynis H. Murphy and Isabel C. H. Clare). -- 1.2 The Assessment and Detection of Deceit (Aldert Vrij). -- 1.3 Assessing Individuals for Compensation (Richard A. Bryant). -- Part 2: Perspectives On Systems: Psychology In Action. -- 2.1 Interviewing by the Police (Rebecca Milne and Ray Bull). -- 2.2 Violence Risk: From Prediction to Management (Kirk Heilbrun). -- 2.3 Risk: The Need for and Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Perspective. (David Carson). -- 2.4 Beyond 'Offender Profiling': The Need for an Investigative Psychology (David Canter and Donna Youngs). -- 2.5 Uses, Misuses and Implications for Crime Data (Tom Williamson). -- 2.6 Crime Prevention (Katarina Fritzon and Andrea Watts). -- 2.7 The Development of Delinquent Behaviour (Friedrich Ls̲el). -- 2.8 Children in Disputes (Judith Trowell). -- 2.9 Child Defendants and the Law (Peter Yates and Eileen Vizard). -- Part 3: Perspectives On Courts: Trials And Decision Making. -- 3.1 Juror Decision-Making in the Twenty-First Century: Confronting Science and Technology in Court (Bradley D. McAuliff, Robert J. Nemeth, Brian H. Bornstein and Steven D. Penrod). -- 3.2 Assessing Evidence: Proving Facts (Michael J. Saks and William C. Thompson). -- 3.3 Advocacy: Getting the Answers You Want (David Carson and Francis Pakes). -- 3.4 Expert Evidence: The Rules and the Rationality the Law Applies (or Should Apply) to Psychological Expertise (David L. Faigman). -- 3.5 Decision Making by Juries and Judges: International Perspectives (Edith Greene and Lawrence Wrightsman). -- 3.6 Restorative Justice: The Influence of Psychology from a Jurisprudent Therapy Perspective (Eric Y. Drogin, Mark E. Howard and John Williams). -- 3.7 Proactive Judges: Solving Problems and Transforming Communities (Leonore M.J. Simon). -- Part 4: Perspectives On Policy: Psychology And Public Debate. -- 4.1 Drugs, Crime and the Law: An Attributional Perspective (John B. Davies). -- 4.2 Psychological Research and Lawyers' Perceptions of Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Trials (Emily Henderson). -- 4.3 Alleged Child Sexual Abuse and Expert Testimony: A Swedish Perspective (Clara Gumpert). -- 4.4 Eyewitnesses (A. Daniel Yarmey). -- 4.5 Psychological and Legal Implications of Occupational Stress for Criminal Justice Practitioners (Jennifer Brown and Janette Porteous). -- 4.6 Therapeutic Jurisprudence: An Invitation to Social Scientists (Carrie J. Petrucci, Bruce J. Winick and David B. Wexler). -- Part 5: Legal Psychology, Psychological Science And Society. -- Methodology: Law's Adopting and Adapting to Psychology's Methods and Findings (Brian Clifford). -- Interviewing and Assessing Clients from Different Cultural Backgrounds: Guidelines for all Forensic Professionals (Martine B. Powell and Terry Bartholomew). -- Psychology and law: A Behavioural or a Social Science? (Stephen P. Savage). -- Table of Cases. -- Tables of Statutes. -- Index
Summary "While law and psychology are both concerned with analysing, understanding and predicting human behaviour, the relationship between these professional disciplines, particularly in court, is still controversial. This book, written by practitioners and academics from the UK, Europe and worldwide, including North America, highlights and emphasises both the extent to which psychologists are already assisting and informing the legal system, and the potential for collaboration between lawyers and psychologists outside the artificially adversarial glare of courtroom proceedings. The editors - one a psychologist specialisng in legal applications of psychology, the other a lawyer with special interests in developing practical approaches to the prevention of legal problems - have ensured that each chapter is relevant to, and easily readable by, both professions. The Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts presents an authoritative commentary on key legal procedures and issues together with practical reviews of psychological concepts, research and practice that bear on these topics. It will prove a valuable resource for those working in all fields where the law and behavioural sciences interact"--Unedited summary from book cover
Analysis Law Related to Psychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Evidence, Expert -- Great Britain.
Forensic psychology.
Law -- Psychological aspects.
Psychology, Applied [MESH]
Psychology, Applied.
Criminal Psychology.
Expert Testimony.
Forensic Psychiatry.
Author Bull, Ray.
Carson, David, 1950-
LC no. 94035582
ISBN 0471941824 (cased)