Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts (eBook)

David Carson, a lawyer with special interests in developing practical approaches to the prevention of legal problems, and Ray Bull, a psychologist specialising in legal applications of psychology, have ensured that each chapter is relevant to, and easily readable by, both professions.

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Psychology and Law: A Subdiscipline, an
Interdisciplinary Collaboration or a Project? (D. Carson).

PART 1: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE COURTS.

1.1 Adults' Capacity to Make Legal Decisions (Glynis H. Murphy
and Isabel C. H. Clare).

1.2 The Assessment and Detection of Deceit (Aldert Vrij).

1.3 Assessing Individuals for Compensation (Richard A.
Bryant).

PART 2: PERSPECTIVES ON SYSTEMS: PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION.

2.1 Interviewing by the Police (Rebecca Milne and Ray Bull).

2.2 Violence Risk: From Prediction to Management (Kirk
Heilbrun).

2.3 Risk: The Need for and Benefits of an Interdisciplinary
Perspective. (David Carson).

2.4 Beyond 'Offender Profiling': The Need for an Investigative
Psychology (David Canter and Donna Youngs).

2.5 Uses, Misuses and Implications for Crime Data (Tom
Williamson).

2.6 Crime Prevention (Katarina Fritzon and Andrea Watts).

2.7 The Development of Delinquent Behaviour (Friedrich
Lösel).

2.8 Children in Disputes (Judith Trowell).

2.9 Child Defendants and the Law (Peter Yates and Eileen
Vizard).

PART 3: PERSPECTIVES ON COURTS: TRIALS AND DECISION MAKING.

3.1 Juror Decision-Making in the Twenty-First Century:
Confronting Science and Technology in Court (Bradley D. McAuliff,
Robert J. Nemeth, Brian H. Bornstein and Steven D. Penrod).

3.2 Assessing Evidence: Proving Facts (Michael J. Saks and
William C. Thompson).

3.3 Advocacy: Getting the Answers You Want (David Carson and
Francis Pakes).

3.4 Expert Evidence: The Rules and the Rationality the Law
Applies (or Should Apply) to Psychological Expertise (David L.
Faigman).

3.5 Decision Making by Juries and Judges: International
Perspectives (Edith Greene and Lawrence Wrightsman).

3.6 Restorative Justice: The Influence of Psychology from a
Jurisprudent Therapy Perspective (Eric Y. Drogin, Mark E. Howard
and John Williams).

3.7 Proactive Judges: Solving Problems and Transforming
Communities (Leonore M.J. Simon).

PART 4: PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY: PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC
DEBATE.

4.1 Drugs, Crime and the Law: An Attributional Perspective (John
B. Davies).

4.2 Psychological Research and Lawyers' Perceptions of Child
Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Trials (Emily Henderson).

4.3 Alleged Child Sexual Abuse and Expert Testimony: A Swedish
Perspective (Clara Gumpert).

4.4 Eyewitnesses (A. Daniel Yarmey).

4.5 Psychological and Legal Implications of Occupational Stress
for Criminal Justice Practitioners (Jennifer Brown and Janette
Porteous).

4.6 Therapeutic Jurisprudence: An Invitation to Social
Scientists (Carrie J. Petrucci, Bruce J. Winick and David B.
Wexler).

PART 5: LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIETY.

Methodology: Law's Adopting and Adapting to Psychology's Methods
and Findings (Brian Clifford).

Interviewing and Assessing Clients from Different Cultural
Backgrounds: Guidelines for all Forensic Professionals (Martine B.
Powell and Terry Bartholomew).

Psychology and law: A Behavioural or a Social Science? (Stephen
P. Savage).

Table of Cases.

Tables of Statutes.

Index.

"...careful and clever integration of the two
disciplines...essential reading..." (Journal of
Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, May/June 2004)

"...provides a wealth of knowledge and experience in
terms of both theory and practice for the reader." (Applied
Cognitive Psychology, No.18 2004)