Psychological Jurisprudence

Psychological Jurisprudence
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791484734

Psychological jurisprudence—or the use of psychology in the legal realm—relies on theories and methods of criminal justice and mental health to make decisions about intervention, policy, and programming. While the intentions behind the law-psychology field are humane, the results often are not. This book provides a "radical" agenda for psychological jurisprudence, one that relies on the insights of literary criticism, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, political economy analysis, postmodernism, and related strains of critical thought. Contributors reveal the roots of psycholegal logic and demonstrate how citizen justice and structural reform are displaced by so-called science and facts. A number of complex issues in the law-psychology field are addressed, including forensic mental health decision-making, parricide, competency to stand trial, adolescent identity development, penal punitiveness, and offender rehabilitation. In exploring how the current resolution to these and related controversies fail to promote the dignity or empowerment of persons with mental illness, this book suggests how the law-psychology field can meaningfully contribute to advancing the goals of justice and humanism in psycholegal theory, research, and policy.

Psychological Jurisprudence

Psychological Jurisprudence
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791461525

A critical look at the relationship between law and psychology.

Psychology and Law

Psychology and Law
Author: Neil Brewer
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462532349

From the initial investigation of a crime to the sentencing of an offender, many everyday practices within the criminal justice system involve complex psychological processes. This volume analyzes the processes involved in such tasks as interviewing witnesses, detecting deception, and eliciting eyewitness reports and identification from adults and children. Factors that influence decision making by jurors and judges are examined as well. Throughout, findings from experimental research are translated into clear recommendations for improving the quality of evidence and the fairness of investigative and legal proceedings. The book also addresses salient methodological questions and identifies key directions for future investigation.

Advances in Psychology and Law

Advances in Psychology and Law
Author: Monica K. Miller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319758594

The latest entry in this noteworthy series continues its focus on psychological issues relating to legal and judicial matters, with sound recommendations for situational and system-wide improvement. Salient concerns are described both in areas where their existence is frequently acknowledged (juror impartiality, the juvenile justice system) and where they are rarely considered (Miranda warnings, forensic mental health experts). Authors describe differences between professional and lay concepts of justice principles--and the resulting disconnect between community sentiment and the law. Throughout these chapters, psychological nuances and their legal implications are made clear as they relate to lawyers, jurors, suspects, and victims. Included among the topics: · From the headlines to the jury room: an examination of the impact of pretrial publicity on jurors and juries. · Victim impact statements in capital sentencing: 25 years post-Payne. · Psychology and the Fourth Amendment. · Examining the presenting characteristics, short-term effects, and long-term outcomes associated with system-involved youths. · Indigenous youth crime: an international perspective. · An empirical analysis of law-psychology journals: who’s publishing and on what? As with the others in the series, this third volume of Advances in Psychology and Law will interest researchers in legal psychology and related disciplines (e.g., criminal justice) as well as practicing attorneys, trial consultants, and clinical psychologists.

Law, Psychology, and Justice

Law, Psychology, and Justice
Author: Christopher R. Williams
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791451830

A provocative critique of the relationship between the legal system and psychology that uses chaos theory to offer a more humane alternative.

The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law

The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law
Author: Thomas Grisso
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190688726

Psychology's formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until several decades later. The emergence of psychology and law as a modern field of scholarship was marked by the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) in 1969, now approaching its 50th anniversary. The scientific foundation upon which the modern field now rests was established by a small group of psychological researchers, legal scholars, and clinicians. The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History reveals how the field developed during the first decade following the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society. The contributors to this edited volume, widely considered to be among the "founders" of the field, were responsible for establishing and nurturing many of the subfields and topics in psychology and law or forensic psychology that flourished across the next fifty years. In each chapter, these leaders explain in narrative form how and why the field and the Society developed in its early years through the recounting of key professional events in their careers during the 1970s. In some cases this was their first major research study using psychology applied to legal issues. In others it was their development of seminal ideas or organizational innovations that had a later impact on the field's development. The volume chronicles how an emerging AP-LS and field of psychology and law were shaped by these psychologists, and how their own initial work was, in turn, shaped by the organization.

Psychology and Law

Psychology and Law
Author: Ronald Roesch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1999-02-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780306459498

Of CBFT Programs and Patients -- Integration: Principles of Forensic Treatment -- Established Principles -- Emerging Principles -- Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research -- III.. Issues in Civil Law -- Chapter 8.. Civil Law: Employment and Discrimination / Jane Goodman-Delahunty -- Sources of Antidiscrimination Law -- Conduct Prohibited by Discrimination Laws -- Prevalence of Workplace Discrimination Charges -- Legal Theories of Workplace Discrimination -- Theories of Liability for Workplace Discrimination -- Disparate Treatment -- Adverse Impact -- Statistical Proof of Discrimination -- Hostile Workplace Environment Discrimination -- Reasonable Accommodation -- Reprisal and Retaliation -- Legal Relief and Remedies for Workplace Discrimination -- Traditional Relief -- Compensatory Damages -- Punitive Damages -- Right to a Jury Trial -- Affirmative Action --^ Perceptions of Fairness and Equity in the Workplace -- Illusions of Distributive Justice -- Myth of Merit-Based Decision Making in the Workplace -- Distributive and Procedural Fairness: Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity -- Fairness in Objective Testing -- Modern Racism in the Workplace -- Background to Current Issues and Research -- Institutional Barriers to Racial Minorities -- Forms of Contemporary Racism -- Contextual Studies of Intergroup Biases -- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace -- Background to Current Issues and Research -- Theories of Harassment: Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Workplace Environment Claims -- Forms of Sexually Harassing Conduct -- Influence of Individual and Social Factors on Sexual Harassment -- Directions for Future Research -- Systemic and Institutional Factors in Employment Discrimination -- Reducing Discrimination in the Workplace -- Damages Flowing from Employment Discrimination --^ Procedural Aspects that Influence Discrimination Charges.

Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony

Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony
Author: John Parry
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318324

This new book written by ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Director, John Parry, J.D. and forensic psychologist, Eric Y. Drogin, J.D., Ph.D., Manual has been formatted and written to guide lawyers, judges, law students, and forensic and other mental disability professionals through the maze of civil and criminal laws, standards, and evidentiary pitfalls, and forensic practices that characterize this area of the law. Moreover, it summarizes what empirical evidence exists to support or raise concerns about these legal standards and forensic practices when they are introduced in the courtroom.

The Psychology and Law of Criminal Justice Processes

The Psychology and Law of Criminal Justice Processes
Author: Roger J. R. Levesque
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781594543128

Psychological science now reveals much about the law's response to crime. This is the first text to bridge both fields as it presents psychological research and theory relevant to each phase of criminal justice processes. The materials are divided into three parts that follow a comprehensive introduction. The introduction analyses the major legal themes and values that guide criminal justice processes and points to the many psychological issues they raise. Part I examines how the legal system investigates and apprehends criminal suspects. Topics range from the identification, searching and seizing to the questioning of suspects. Part II focuses on how the legal system establishes guilt. To do so, it centres on the process of bargaining and pleading cases, assembling juries, providing expert witnesses, and considering defendants' mental states. Part III focuses on the disposition of cases. Namely, that part highlights the process of sentencing defendants, predicting criminal tendencies, treating and controlling offenders, and determining eligibility for such extreme punishments as the death penalty. The format seeks to give readers a feeling for the entire criminal justice process and for the role psychological science has and can play in it.

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law
Author: Brian L. Cutler
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1009
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1412951895

Over 350 entries provide an authoritative & comprehensive A-Z list of topics in psychology and law, including criminal behaviour and treatment, juvenile offenders, eyewitness memory, forensic assessment and diagnosis, and trial processes.