Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Justice

1. Front Matter

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2. Adversarial or Inquisitorial

   • Peter J. Van Koppen, Steven D. Penrod

   Pages 1-19

3. Adversarial or Inquisitorial

   • Hans F. M. Crombag

   Pages 21-25

4. An Empirically Based Comparison of American and European Regulatory Approaches to Police Investigation

   • Christopher Slobogin

   Pages 27-54

5. “We Will Protect Your Wife and Child, but Only If You Confess”

   • Aldert Vrij

   Pages 55-79

6. Violence Risk Assessment in American Law

   • John Monahan

   Pages 81-89

7. The Dual Nature of Forensic Psychiatric Practice

   • Corine De Ruiter, Martin Hildebrand

   Pages 91-106

8. The Death Penalty and Adversarial Justice in the United States

   • Samuel R. Gross

   Pages 107-117

9. Taking Recovered Memories to Court

   • Harald Merckelbach

   Pages 119-130

10. Adversarial Influences on the Interrogation of Trial Witnesses

    • Roger C. Park

    Pages 131-166

11. Children in Court

    • Ingrid M. Cordon, Gail S. Goodman, Stacey J. Anderson

    Pages 167-189

12. Identification Evidence in Germany and the United States

    • Siegfried L. Sporer, Brian L. Cutler

    Pages 191-208

13. Expert Evidence

    • Petra T. C. Van Kampen

    Pages 209-234

14. Expert Witnesses in Europe and the United States

    • Michael J. Saks

    Pages 235-244

15. The Role of the Forensic Expert in an Inquisitorial System

    • Ton Broeders

    Pages 245-253

16. Psychological Expert Witnesses in Germany and the Netherlands

    • Claudia Knörnschild, Peter J. Van Koppen

    Pages 255-282

17. Preventing Bad Psychological Scientific Evidence in the Netherlands and the United States

    • Peter J. Van Koppen, Michael J. Saks

    Pages 283-307

18. Styles of Trial Procedure at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

    • Francis J. Pakes

    Pages 309-319

19. Convergence and Complementarity between Professional Judges and Lay Adjudicators

    • Shari Seidman Diamond

    Pages 321-332

20. The Principle of Open Justice in the Netherlands

    • Ruth Hoekstra, Marijke Malsch

    Pages 333-346

This is the first volume that directly compares the practices of adversarial and inquisitorial systems of law from a psychological perspective. It aims at understanding why American and European continental systems differ so much, while both systems entertain much support in their communities. In the chapters it is demonstrated how the different systems chose different solutions for many of the same problems and how the solutions are related to the typical characteristics of the adversarial and the inquisitorial systems of criminal law. Particular emphasis is placed on problems addressed by psychological researchers and practitioners in the two systems. Chapters cover topics including: police investigative techniques, risk assessment, the death penalty, recovered memories, child witnesses, line-up practices, expert witnesses, trial procedures, and lay versus judge decision making. The book is written for advanced audiences in psychology and law.

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• Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, the Netherlands

  Peter J. Koppen

• Department of Law, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  Peter J. Koppen

• John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA

  Steven D. Penrod

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