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As law is instituted by society to serve society, there can be no question that psychology plays an important and inevitable role in the legal process, clarifying or complicating legal issues. In this enlightening text, Roesch, Hart, Ogloff, and the contributors review all the key areas of the use of psychological expertise in civil, criminal, and family law. An impressive selection of academic scholars and legal professionals discusses the contributions that psychology brings to the legal arena.
Topics examined in this insightful text include:
The volume also features a noteworthy appendix on specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists.
Psychology and Law collects a range of expert testimony in its thorough examination of the legal process, affording readers a unique survey of contemporary knowledge.
Topics examined in this insightful text include:
- juries and the current empirical literature
- witnesses and the validity of reports
- preventing mistaken convictions in eyewitness identification trials
- forensic assessment and treatment
- predicting violence in mentally and personality disordered individuals
- employment and discrimination
- new `best interests' standards for children in courts
- education and training in psychology and law, and
- ethical and legal contours of forensic psychology.
The volume also features a noteworthy appendix on specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists.
Psychology and Law collects a range of expert testimony in its thorough examination of the legal process, affording readers a unique survey of contemporary knowledge.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Psychology and Law
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Human Behavior in the Trial Process
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Front Matter
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Forensic Assessment and Treatment
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Front Matter
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Issues in Civil Law
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Front Matter
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Ethics and Professional Issues
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychology and Law
Book Subtitle: The State of the Discipline
Editors: Ronald Roesch, Stephen D. Hart, James R. P. Ogloff
Series Title: Perspectives in Law & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4891-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45949-8Published: 28 February 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45950-4Published: 28 February 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4891-1Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0160-4422
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 459
Topics: Law and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general