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This engrossing book examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. It seeks to clarify the basic dilemmas that persist in the legal system and looks at the ethical, moral, legal, and psychological "gray areas" of the law, including coverage of such topics as: competence to stand trial, pretrial publicity and resulting changes in venue, criminal profiling, civil case law and civil procedures, the rights of children, capital punishment, the psychology of criminal trials, the insanity defense, expert forensic testimony, and analysis of eyewitness identification and line-up procedures.
The author team for Wrightsman's Psychology And The Legal System, Seventh Edition combines complementary expertise, active research, writing careers, and real world experience (as consultants working within the legal system) to produce a comprehensive text that is unparalleled in scholarship and writing style. The authorship, research base and comprehensive coverage make this text popular with instructors and students.
This text demonstrates the importance of psychology to understanding the legal system and the impact on individuals' everyday lives through the use of real cases and questions formed to create discussions of these cases. This thoroughly updated edition balances discussion of the legal system with psychological theory, concepts, and research.
| Psychology and the law: Choices and roles | |
| The legal system: Issues, structure, and players | |
| Psychology of Crime | |
| Psychology of Police | |
| Crime investigation: Witnesses | |
| Evaluating Criminal Suspects | |
| Between arrest and trial | |
| Forensic assessment in juvenile and criminal cases | |
| Forensic assessment in civil cases | |
| The trial process | |
| Jury representativeness and selection | |
| The jury: Decision processes and reforms | |
| Psychology of victims of crime and violence | |
| Psychology of punishment and sentencing | |
| Juvenile and adult corrections | |
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