| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I; Chapter 1 -- Criminal Profiling: Evidence, Experts, and Miscarriages of Justice; Case Study: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo; The DC Sniper; The Crime Spree; The Profile; The Snipers; Tunnel Vision; References; Further Readings; Criminal Profiling: Evidence, Experts, and Miscarriages of Justice; Criminal Profiling: A Primer; Profiling as Nomothetic Prediction; Profiling as Ideographic Analysis; Professional Standards and Certification; Professional Certification |
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The Criminal Profiler Professional Certification Act of 2013The Criminal Profiler: Basic Qualifications; Profiling as Expert Evidence; The Role of Criminal Profiling; A Brief History of Criminal Profiling in Court; Colorado v. Masters (2001); Profilers as Forensic Experts; Case Studies in False Testimony and Forensic Fraud; California v. Raymond Lee Jennings (2007); California v. Caleb Madsen (2009); Conclusion; References; Further Readings; Chapter 2 -- The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification; Case Study: Timothy Atkins; The Murder; False Evidence; The Eyewitness Identification |
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Stranger Eyewitness Identification is Inherently UnreliableStranger Eyewitness Identification is Rendered Even Less Reliable when Influence from improper Suggestion is not Guarded Ag ... ; Stranger Eyewitness Identification is Rendered Even Less Reliable when the Identification is Cross-Racial; Stranger Eyewitness identification is Rendered Even Less Reliable when the Perpetrator was First Seen Under Traumatic and V ... ; The Exoneration; Conclusion; References; Further Readings; The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification; Recent History; Overview on Memory; Eyewitness Errors in Actual Cases |
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Other Research Methodologies in Eyewitness ResearchEyewitness Identification Research; Estimator Variable: Limited or Brief Exposure to the Perpetrator; Estimator Variable: The Effects of Stress and Arousal on Memory; Estimator Variable: Weapon Focus Effect; Estimator Variable: Cross-Race Identification; Estimator Variable: Effects of Distance on Accuracy; Estimator Variable: Co-witness Contamination; Estimator Variable: Effects of Delay on Accuracy; System Variables; System Variable: Showups or Field Identifications; System Variable: Mug-Shot Searching |
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System Variable: Composites and Sketches"Pristine" Lineup Procedures (aka Best Practices); System Variable: Filler Selection; System Variable: All Suspect Lineups; System Variable: Double-Blind Administration; System Variable: Pre-Identification Instructions; System Variable: Sequential and Simultaneous Lineups; System Variable: Eyewitness Confidence and Postidentification Feedback; System Variable: Repeated Identification Procedures; How to Prevent Wrongful Convictions inEyewitness Cases; Chapter 3 -- Child Interrogations and Testimony; Chapter Outline; Case Study: John Stoll |
| Summary |
"Wrongful convictions are the result of faulty or false scientific evidence in 50% of the cases. Defense counsel is often at a great disadvantage in defending against evidence based on science. Illusory Evidence: The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions is written for the non-scientist, to make complicated scientific information clear and concise enough for attorneys and judges to master. This is obtained by providing case studies to simplify issues in forensic psychology for the legal professional. Increases the courts' knowledge about areas of psychology that have been debunked, have advanced, or have been refined by the scientific communityCovers issues in psychological forensics, namely: Profiling, Psychological Defenses, Mitigation, Eyewitness Testimony/Identification, Child Testimony, Repressed Memories, False Confessions and Moral PanicTrains prosecuting attorneys about the present state of the forensic psychology, to avoid relying only on legal precedent and will not present flawed science to the court Provides defense attorneys the knowledge necessary to competently defend where forensic psychology plays a part in a prosecutionArms innocence projects and appellate attorneys with the latest information to challenge convictionsUses case studies to simplify issues in forensic psychology for the legal professional"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
Judicial error -- Cases
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Forensic sciences -- Case studies
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Forensic sciences
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Judicial error
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koen, Wendy J., editor
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Bowers, C. Michael, editor
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| ISBN |
9780128027028 |
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0128027029 |
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