Overview
Consists of four substantive units, each assessing the assumptions that the law makes about human judgement and decision making in a specific area
Examines the effects of law on the lives of workers, students, citizens, attorneys, administrators and police investigators
A guide to understand the valuable contribution of social scientific research in policy formulation in the law
Addresses the role of psychology in substantive law and legal decision making
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Investigative Profiling: Legal Developments and Empirical Research
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Affirmative Action: Legal Developments and Empirical Research
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Workplace Discrimination: Legal Developments and Empirical Research in Sexual Harassment
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Hate Speech and Hate Crimes: Legal Developments and Empirical Research
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About this book
Our basic assumption about the law is that it is designed to operate fairly and openly. But with human beings as the ultimate decision makers, how do we prevent discrimination within the legal arena, and how does the law decide whether others have behaved in a discriminatory manner? Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making examines four controversial areas involving people’s perceptions of others—racial profiling, affirmative action, workplace harassment, and hate speech/hate crime—from the perspectives of psychology, decision theory, and the law.
This book's contributing experts raise these critical questions:
- How valid are legal assumptions about human behavior?
- What cognitive processes underlie biased behavior?
- What do personal experience and situational cues contribute to decision making?
- How do individuals’ perceptions of the law influence their judgment?
- Can psychology help legislators write more effective laws?
In answering them, the book:
- Compares rational, descriptive, and normative decision-making models in legal contexts
- Provides important insights into legal decision making by non-specialists (police, administrators, jurors)
- Clarifies and broadens the role of social science in the courts
- Promotes improved dialogue between the field of psychology and law to create a more socially aware jurisprudence.
Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making invites the legal and psychology communities to work together in solving some of our most pressing social problems.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making
Book Subtitle: Psychological Perspectives
Editors: Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, Robert Schopp, Steven L. Willborn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46218-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-46217-2Published: 06 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4276-0Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-46218-9Published: 11 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Law and Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Law, general