Overview
- Comprehensive reviews of a broad range of topics of interest to the law-psychology community
- Contributors are highly productive and well-known researchers
- Each chapter contains recommendations for future research, which will help frame work for years to come
Part of the book series: Advances in Psychology and Law (APL, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume consists of up-to-date review articles on topics relevant to psychology and law, and will be of current interest to the field. These topics are currently attracting a great deal of research and public policy attention in the U.S. and elsewhere and will be relevant to researchers, clinical practitioners, and policy makers. Topics include: attitudes toward police (Cole et al.), accuracy of memory for child sexual abuse (Goldfarb et al.), the use of interpreters in investigations (Goodman-Delahunty et al.), adjustment of former prisoners post-exoneration (Kirshenbaum et al.), psychological implications for gun policy (Pirelli et al.), ability to match people with images from ID cards and video (Rumschik et al.), judicial instructions on eyewitness evidence (Skalon et al.), social science of the death penalty (West et al.), and informant testimony (Wetmore et al.).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Monica K. Miller is a Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno with a split appointment between the Criminal Justice Department and the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program. She is on the editorial board of the journal Psychology, Crime & Law. She has authored 5 books and edited 9 books, including “Handbook of Community Sentiment” (Springer, 2015).
Brian H. Bornstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served as Director of the country’s oldest law-psychology program; Professor at Arizona State University; and Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina. He has edited 15 books, most of which have been with Springer, and has authored 5 other scholarly books.
The co-editors have a longstanding and productive working relationship. Together, Brian and Monica are currently co-editors of the New York University book series “Psychology and Crime” and co-edited a volume on “Stress, Trauma, and Wellbeing in the Legal System” (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as “Advances in Psychology and Law” Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Springer). They have also co-authored one book and over a dozen journal articles together.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Psychology and Law
Book Subtitle: Volume 5
Editors: Monica K. Miller, Brian H. Bornstein
Series Title: Advances in Psychology and Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54678-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54677-9Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54680-9Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54678-6Published: 23 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-6099
Series E-ISSN: 2366-6102
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 419
Topics: Forensic Psychology, Law and Psychology