The verdict of the court : passing judgment in law and psychology / Jenny McEwan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2003Description: vi, 225 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1901362531
- 9781901362534
- Passing judgment in law and psychology
- 347.07019 22
- K2300 .M34 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 347.07019 MCE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A377494B |
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347.07 RIG The right to a fair trial / | 347.07 TRI Trials / | 347.07014 HEF The language of jury trial : a corpus-aided analysis of legal-lay discourse / | 347.07019 MCE The verdict of the court : passing judgment in law and psychology / | 347.072 COU Obtaining pre-trial information : "mining at the coalface / | 347.075 SAL Cross-examination : the art of the advocate / | 347.075 WIT Witness testimony : psychological, investigative and evidential perspectives / |
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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