Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Costanzo, Mark; Pezdek, Kathy; Krauss, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

During the past two decades, the frequency and range of expert testimony by psychologists have increased dramatically. Courts now routinely hear expert testimony from clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists. Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of the content, ethics, and impact of expert testimony. This book features leading scholars who have contributed to the scientific foundation for expert testimony and who have also served as expert witnesses.

The opening chapter explores issues surrounding the admissibility of expert testimony, and the closing chapter explores the ethics and limits of psychological testimony. Each of the intervening chapters focuses on a different area of expert testimony: forensic identification, police interrogations and false confessions, eyewitness identification, sexual harassment, mitigation in capital cases, the insanity defense, battered women, future dangerousness, and child custody. These chapters describe the typical content of expert testimony in a particular area, evaluate the scientific foundation for testimony, examine how jurors respond to expert testimony, and suggest ways in which legal standards or procedures might be modified in light of psychological research.

This groundbreaking book should be on the shelf of every social scientist interested in the legal system and every trial attorney who is likely to retain a psychologist as an expert witness. It can also serve as a text for advanced courses in psychology, legal studies, criminal justice, law, and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000106213
• Artikelnr.: 59806010

Autorenporträt

Mark Costanzo, Daniel Krauss and Kathy Pezdek

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:M. Costanzo
D. Krauss
K. Pezdek
Varieties and Vagaries of Expert Psychological Testimony: An Introduction. B.D. Sales
D.W. Shuman
Science
Experts
and Law: Reflections on the Past and the Future. W.C. Thompson
S.A. Cole
Psychological Aspects of Forensic Identification Evidence. M. Costanzo
R.A. Leo
Research and Expert Testimony on Interrogations and Confessions. K. Pezdek
Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Memory and Identification. M. O'Connor
Expert Testimony in Sexual Harassment Cases: Its Scope
Limits
and Effectiveness. K.L. Salekin
Capital Mitigation From a Developmental Perspective: The Importance of Risk Factors
Protective Factors
and the Construct of Resilience. N.J. Finkel
Insanity's Disconnect
the Law's Madness
and the Irresistible Impulses of Experts. R.A. Schuller
G. Jenkins
Expert Evidence Pertaining to Battered Women: Limitations and Reconceptualizations. D. Krauss
J. Lieberman
Expert Testimony on Risk and Future Dangerousness. R.K. Otto
D.A. Martindale
The Law
Process
and Science of Child Custody Evaluation. M.J. Saks
R.I. Lanyon
Pitfalls and Ethics of Expert Testimony.