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The verdict of the court : passing judgment in law and psychology / Jenny McEwan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2003Description: vi, 225 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1901362531
  • 9781901362534
Other title:
  • Passing judgment in law and psychology
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 347.07019 22
LOC classification:
  • K2300 .M34 2003
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Responsibility -- 3. Criminal Responsibility -- 4. Finders of Fact -- 5. Laymen and the Law -- 6. The Criminal Process and Personality -- 7. Laymen and Science -- 8. The Impact of Psychology on Law.
Review: "Courts are constantly required to know how people think. They may have to decide what a specific person was thinking on a past occasion; how others would have reacted to a particular situation; or whether a witness is telling the truth. Be they judges, jurors or magistrates, the law demands they penetrate human consciousness. This book questions whether the 'arm-chair psychology' operated by fact-finders, and indeed the law itself, in its treatment of the fact-finders, bears any resemblance to the knowledge derived from psychological research. Comparing psychological theory with court verdicts in both civil and criminal contexts, it assesses where the separation between law and science is most acute, and most dangerous."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Responsibility -- 3. Criminal Responsibility -- 4. Finders of Fact -- 5. Laymen and the Law -- 6. The Criminal Process and Personality -- 7. Laymen and Science -- 8. The Impact of Psychology on Law.

"Courts are constantly required to know how people think. They may have to decide what a specific person was thinking on a past occasion; how others would have reacted to a particular situation; or whether a witness is telling the truth. Be they judges, jurors or magistrates, the law demands they penetrate human consciousness. This book questions whether the 'arm-chair psychology' operated by fact-finders, and indeed the law itself, in its treatment of the fact-finders, bears any resemblance to the knowledge derived from psychological research. Comparing psychological theory with court verdicts in both civil and criminal contexts, it assesses where the separation between law and science is most acute, and most dangerous."--BOOK JACKET.

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