A collection of papers relating psychology to criminal law. Includes a seminal paper on the psychologist as expert witness and a review of psychological factors in eyewitness testimony. Contributors include Lionel Haward, D. E. Blackman, Ray Bull and Linden Hilgendorf. A review of two decades of work of the Psychology Department at Broadmoor Hospital. Papers include Ron Blackburn on psychopathy, Kevin Howells on aggression and David Crawford on the assessment and treatment of sex offenders.
Papers address practical problems in the use of psychologists as expert witnesses in the courtroom.
Includes an exposition of the present state of the law as it affects psychologists as expert witnesses and a comprehensive statement of the case law in this field. Contributors include Robin Griffiths, Alastair Hill, Bill Nash, Gordon Trasler and Eric Ward. An examination of the impact of the Mental Health Act 1983 on the admission, detention, and discharge of both civil and offender patients. Contributions by John Hamilton, Larry Gostin, Jill Peay, Ron Blackburn and Bernard Kat. Keith Hawkins questions our ways of thinking about making decisions with examples from parole cases.