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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876980103321

Titolo

Applying psychology to criminal justice / / edited by David Carson ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., c2007

ISBN

1-281-03224-7

9786611032241

0-470-71306-2

0-470-05962-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarsonDavid <1950->

Disciplina

364.3

Soggetti

Criminal justice, Administration of - Psychological aspects

Criminal investigation - Psychological aspects

Judicial process - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Psychology and law : a science to be applied / David Carson, Becky Milne, Francis Pakes, Karen Shalev and Andrea Shawyer -- Identification / Ronald P. Fisher & Margaret C. Reardon -- Behavioural science and the law : investigation / John G. D. Grieve -- Investigative interviewing: the role of research / Becky Milne, Gary Shaw and Ray Bull -- Credibility assessments in a legal context / Aldert Vrij -- Fact-finding and evidence / Jenny McEwan -- A psychology and law of fact-finding / David Carson -- Criminal responsibility / Susan Dennison -- Criminal thinking / Emma Palmer -- The mentally disordered offender : disenablers for the delivery of justice / Jane Winstone and Francis Pakes -- Decision making in criminal justice / Edie Greene and Leslie Ellis -- A behavioral science perspective on identifying and managing hindsight bias and unstructured judgment : implications for legal decision-making / Kirk Heilbrun and Jacey Erickson -- To decide or not to decide: decision making and decision avoidance in critical incidents / Marie Eyre and Laurence Alison -- Processes: proving guilt, disproving innocence / David Carson -- The changing nature of adversarial, inquisitorial and islamic trials / Francis Pakes -- misapplication of



psychology in court / Peter J. van Koppen -- Identifying liability for organizational errors / David Carson -- Applying legal concepts / David Carson, Becky Milne, Francis Pakes, Karen Shalev and Andrea Shawyer.

Sommario/riassunto

Few things should go together better than psychology and law - and few things are getting together less successfully. Edited by four psychologists and a lawyer, and drawing on contributions from Europe, the USA and Australia, Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice argues that psychology should be applied more widely within the criminal justice system. Contributors develop the case for successfully applying psychology to justice by providing a rich range of applicable examples for development now and in the future. Readers are encouraged to challenge the limited ambition and imagination