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- The use of psychology to effect legal change requires a bringing together of both psychological and legal paradigms. Important differences exist between the styles and methods of reasoning, proof, and justification in psychology and law.
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Dec 16, 2023 · By going a considerable way in bridging the gap between psychology and law, psycholegal researchers have provided us with knowledge, the total of which is more than the sum of its parts. This realization provides, perhaps, the best basis for optimism about legal psychology’s future.
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Shocked at miscarriages of justice and looking to understand offender, investigator, and justice-system player behavior, society is looking to legal psychology for both explanations and solutions. This is what we wanted our issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science to address.
Dec 27, 2016 · This important book captures contemporary attempts to build bridges between the two very different disciplines of law and psychology and to establish the true nature of the interaction between the two.
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Psychology in law has been the most common of the aforementioned three differentiations and the source of much of the uneasiness in legal psychology.3 Psychology and law is used by Blackburn (1996) to denote, for example, psycholegal research into offenders,4 lawyers, magistrates, judges and jurors.
- 4 Children as witnesses
- 5 The jury
- 7 Psychologists as expert witnesses
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction Legal aspects of children as witnesses Evaluations of Live Link/closed-circuit television (CCTV) Child witnesses and popular beliefs about them Children’s remembering ability and autobiographical memories Deception in children Factors that impact on children’s testimony Enhancing children’s testimony Interviewing children in sexual abu...
Introduction A jury of twelve: historical background and legal aspects The notion of an impartial and fair jury: a critical appraisal Methods for studying juries/jurors What do we know about juries? Defendant characteristics Victim/plaintiff characteristics Interaction of defendant and victim characteristics Lawyer and judge characteristics Hung ju...
Introduction Admissibility of expert evidence United States England and Wales Australia, New Zealand and Canada The impact of expert testimony by psychologists Appearing as an expert witness Conclusions Revision questions Additional reading
While the decision by Cambridge University Press to go for a fourth edition was unexpected, I accepted the challenge having first, as in the past, been assured by my wife Maria and our children Elena and Konstantinos-Raphael that I would have their full support and understanding. Little did they know, of course, that this time they would need to de...
Our hypothesis is that legal theory has as much to do with the nature of the relationship between psychology and law (or any social science and law, for that matter) as differences in disciplinary details.
Oct 20, 2023 · This interdisciplinary field seeks to bridge the gap between psychology and the law, shedding light on the psychological processes that shape legal decisions.
