ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Invited address
Jingoism, Dogmatism and Other Evils in Legal Psychology: Lessons Learned in the 20th Century
part 1|48 pages
Adolescents
part 2|40 pages
Juries
part 3|99 pages
Civil and Criminal Court
part 4|96 pages
Eyewitness Evidence and Testimony
part 5|27 pages
Victims of Crime