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Handbook of Psychology and Law

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Dorothy K. Kagehiro

    1. Philadelphia, USA

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  2. William S. Laufer

    1. Department of Legal Studies, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Constitutional Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Exploring the First and Sixth Amendments: Pretrial Publicity and Jury Decision Making

      • Daniel Linz, Steven Penrod
      Pages 3-20

    3. Exploring the Fourth Amendment: Searches Based on Consent

      • Dorothy K. Kagehiro, Ralph B. Taylor
      Pages 21-36

  3. Legal Procedure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. The Law and Psychology of Precedent

      • William S. Laufer, Steven D. Walt
      Pages 39-55

    3. Jury Decision Making

      • Valerie P. Hans
      Pages 56-76

    4. Management of Complex Civil Litigation

      • Elizabeth C. Wiggins, Steven J. Breckler
      Pages 77-94

    5. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Trial and Appellate Courts

      • Robert J. MacCoun, E. Allan Lind, Tom R. Tyler
      Pages 95-118

    6. Use of Psychologists and Psychological Research in Legislative Decision Making on Public Interest Matters

      • April Wursten, Bruce Sales
      Pages 119-138

  4. Law of Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Eyewitness Evidence and Testimony

      • Kipling D. Williams, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Kenneth A. Deffenbacher
      Pages 141-166

    3. Probabilities in the Courtroom: An Evaluation of the Objections and Policies

      • Jonathan J. Koehler
      Pages 167-184

    4. Normative and Empirical Issues About the Role of Expert Witnesses

      • Michael J. Saks
      Pages 185-203

  5. Criminal Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. The “Guilty Mind:” Mens Rea

      • Stephen J. Morse
      Pages 207-229

    3. The Adjudication of Criminal Responsibility: A Review of Theory and Research

      • Stephen L. Golding
      Pages 230-250

    4. Law and Statistics in Conflict: Reflections on McCleskey v. Kemp

      • David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, Charles A. Pulaski Jr.
      Pages 251-271

  6. Juvenile and Family Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
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    2. Children as Legal Actors

      • Gary B. Melton
      Pages 275-291
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About this book

Shari Seidman Diamond Scholars interested in psychology and law are fond of c1aiming origins for psycholegal research that date back four score and three years ago to Hugo von Munsterberg's On the Witness Stand, published in 1908. These early roots can mislead the casual observer about the history of psychology and law. Vigorous and sustained research in the field is a recent phenomenon. It is only 15 years since the first review of psy­ chology and law appeared in the Annual Review of Psychology (Tapp, 1976). The following year saw the first issue of Law and Human Behavior, the official publication of the American Psychology-Law Society and now the journal of the American Psychological Associ­ ation's Division of Psychology and Law. Few psychology departments offered even a single course in psychology and law before 1973, while by 1982 1/4 of psychology graduate programs had at least one course, and a number had begun to offer forensic minors and/or joint J. D. / Ph. D. programs (Freeman & Roesch, see Chapter 28). Yet this short period of less than 20 years has seen a dramatic level of activity. Its strengths and weaknesses, excitements and disappointments, are aII captured in the collection of chapters published in this first Handbook of Psychology and Law. In describing what we have learned ab out psychology and law, the works included here also reveal the questions we have yet to answer and thus offer a blueprint for activities in the next 20 years.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philadelphia, USA

    Dorothy K. Kagehiro

  • Department of Legal Studies, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    William S. Laufer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Psychology and Law

  • Editors: Dorothy K. Kagehiro, William S. Laufer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4038-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4040-0Published: 01 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4038-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 628

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Law and Psychology

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