Law and psychology
By: edited by Belinda Brooks-Gordon and Michael Freeman.
Contributors: Brooks-Gordon, Belinda.; Freeman, Michael D. A.
Series: Current legal issues -- v. 9
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780199211395
Subjects: Law -- Psychological aspects
Description: Containing a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and psychology, this volume includes studies of jury trials in terrorism cases, psychological evidence in family law cases, child witness testimony and the role of psychology in punishment theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law and psychology : issues for today / Belinda Brooks-Gordon and Michael Freeman; title: Breaking down the barriers / Jenny McEwan; title: Therapeutic jurisprudence : enhancing the relationship between law and psychology / Bruce J. Winick; title: Legal decision making : psychological reality meets legal idealism / Mandeep K. Dhami; title: Can cognitive neuroscience make psychology a foundational discipline for the study of law? / Oliver R. Goodenough; title: How psychology is changing the punishment theory debate / Paul H. Robinson; title: Modelling systematic communication differences between law and science / Paul Dougan, Fernand Gobet, and Michael King; title: Cognitive errors, individual differences, and paternalism / Jeffrey J. Rachlinski; title: Developmentally appropriate Interview techniques / Michael E. Lamb and Anneli S. Larsson; title: Nothing but the truth : achieving best evidence through Interviewing in the forensic setting / Sarah Henderson and Linda Taylor; title: Lie detection assessments as evidence in criminal courts / Aldert Vrij and Samantha Mann; title: Towards a broader perspective on the problem of mistaken identification : police decision-making and identification procedures / Andrew Roberts; title: Child witness testimony : what do we know and where are we going? / Helen L. Westcott; title: The controversy over psychological evidence in family law cases / Nicholas Bala and Katherine Duvall Antonacopoulos; title: Domestic violence and child protection : can psychology inform legal decisions? / Elizabeth Gilchrist; title: Legal and psychological approaches to understanding domestic violence for American Indian women / Cynthia Willis Esqueda and Melissa Tehee; title: Worlds colliding : legal regulation and psychologists' evidence about workplace bullying / Lizzie Barmes; title: Psychology, law, and murders of gay men : responding to homosexual advances / Peter Bartlett; title: Trial by jury involving persons accused of terrorism or supporting terrorism / Neil Vidmar; title: Muddying the waters with red herrings : jurors, juries, and expert evidence / Judith Fordham; title: Conflicts over territory : anti-social behaviour : legislation and young people /Julia Fionda, Robert Jago, and Rachel Manning; title: Psychology as reconstituted by education and law : the case of children with autism / Michael King and Diane King; title: The construction of memory through law and law's responsiveness to children / Ya'ir Ronen; title: A dual process that disables the persuasive impact of mass media appeals to obey tax laws / Robert Mason and Safaa Amer; title: Consumer bankruptcy reform and the heuristic borrower / Susan Block-Lieb and Ted Janger; title: Regulating prostitution / Helen Self; title: Psychoanalysis and the Nazis / Stephen Frosh.