Expert psychological testimony for the courts

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Label

Expert psychological testimony for the courts

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mark Costanzo, Daniel Krauss, Kathy Pezdek

Contributor

• Costanzo, Mark
• Krauss, Daniel A., (Daniel Avram)
• Pezdek, Kathy

Subject

• Bewijs (recht)
• Criminal Psychology
• Criminal psychology
• Criminal psychology -- United States
• Evidence, Expert
• Evidence, Expert -- United States
• Expert Testimony
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry -- United States
• Forensic psychology
• Forensic psychology -- United States
• Gerechtelijke psychologie
• Getuigenverklaringen
• United States
• United States
• Verenigde Staten

Summary

During the past two decades, the frequency and range of expert testimony by psychologists have increased dramatically. Courts now routinely hear expert testimony from clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists. Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of the content, ethics, and impact of expert testimony. This book features leading scholars who have contributed to the scientific foundation for expert testimony and who have also served as expert witnesses. The opening chapter explores issues surrounding the admissibility of expert testimony, and the closing chapter explores the ethics and limits of psychological testimony. Each of the intervening chapters focuses on a different area of expert testimony: forensic identification, police interrogations and false confessions, eyewitness identification, sexual harassment, mitigation in capital cases, the insanity defense, battered women, future dangerousness, and child custody. These chapters describe the typical content of expert testimony in a particular area, evaluate the scientific foundation for testimony, examine how jurors respond to expert testimony, and suggest ways in which legal standards or procedures might be modified in light of psychological research. This groundbreaking book should be on the shelf of every social scientist interested in the legal system and every trial attorney who is likely to retain a psychologist as an expert witness. It can also serve as a text for advanced courses in psychology, legal studies, criminal justice, law, and sociology

Member of

• Claremont book series on applied social psychology

Action

committed to retain for EAST

Cataloging source

YLS

LC call number

KF8922

LC item number

.E97 2007

Nature of contents

• encyclopedias
• surveys of literature
• legal articles

NLM call number

• 2006 L-411
• W 740

NLM item number

E96 2007