Introduction: Psychology and the Criminal Justice System, Amy
Bradfield Douglass & Neil Brewer
1. Criminal Profiling, Laura Fallon & Brent Snook
2. Cognitive Bias in Legal Decision Making, Steve Charman, Amy
Bradfield Douglass, & Alexis Mook
3. Interrogations and Confessions, Stephanie Madon, Curt More, &
Ryan Ditchfield
4. Deception Detection, Christopher A. Gunderson & Leanne ten
Brinke
5. Eyewitness Memory, Sean M. Lane & Kate A. Houston
6. Interviewing Witnesses and Victims, Lorraine Hope & Fiona
Gabbert
7. Child Witnesses, Thomas D. Lyon, Kelly McWilliams, & Shanna
Williams
8. False Memory, Maria S. Zaragoza, Ira Hyman, & Quin M.
Chrobak
9. Eyewitness Identification, James D. Sauer, Matthew A. Palmer, &
Neil Brewer
10. Identifying People from Images, David White & Richard Kemp
11. Plea Bargaining, Miko M. Wilford, Annabelle Shestak, & Gary L.
Wells
12. Competence to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility, Lauren
E. Kois, Preeti Chauhan, & Janet I. Warren
13. Expert Testimony, Stephanie Marion, Jeffrey Kaplan, & Brian
Cutler
14. Jury Decision Making, Liana C. Peter-Hagene, Jessica M.
Salerno, & Hannah Phalen
15. Aggression, Violence, and Psychopathy, Devon L. L.
Polaschek
16. Judicial Decision Making, Gregory Mitchell
17. Translating Psychological Science into Policy and Practice,
Nancy K. Steblay
Index
Neil Brewer, PhD, is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus
Professor of Psychology at Flinders University, South Australia. He
is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His research addresses
eyewitness identification and recall, juror judgments, and,
recently, interactions between individuals with autism spectrum
disorder and the justice system. Dr. Brewer has served as the
editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and as an
editorial board member for all the major psychology–law
journals.
Amy Bradfield Douglass, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Bates
College. She teaches statistics and upper-level courses on
psychology and law and psychology of religion. Her research focuses
on how eyewitnesses make decisions, how eyewitness errors can be
prevented, how social interactions with lineup administrators
affect retrospective witness judgments, and how people perceive and
evaluate eyewitnesses. Dr. Douglass is an editorial board member
and former associate editor of Law and Human Behavior.
"We live at a time when psychological research in matters of social
justice has never been so sorely needed. This text satisfies
today's high demand for forensic psychology in the courts and in
the college classroom. With up-to-date chapters written by active
scholars, the book spans a range of sizzling topics--criminal
profiling, lie detection, police interrogations and confessions,
eyewitness memory, bias in the forensic sciences, judicial and jury
decision making, plea bargaining, psychopathy, and what it means to
be competent to stand trial."--Saul Kassin, PhD, Distinguished
Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City
University of New York
"If you have ever been curious about the deep connection between
psychology and law, this is the book for you. Two eminent
researchers have assembled a stellar group of scientists and
scholars to fill readers in on the latest on eyewitness memory,
judicial decision making, expert testimony, and a host of other
topics. I felt immense pride when reading of the myriad ways
psychology has contributed to solving some of the most vexing
problems in our system of justice. You can see that for yourself,
whether you’re learning about it for the first time or have been
following the literature for years."--Elizabeth F. Loftus, PhD,
Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law,
and Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine
"Brewer and Douglass have really hit the mark with this excellent,
up-to-date work. A wide array of topics are covered, from
traditional social and cognitive research related to eyewitness
memory to more clinically based areas such as forensic interviewing
and the assessment of competence. The book tackles emerging areas
of research and practice that are not included in other texts, such
as issues related to plea bargaining, cognitive bias in forensic
decision making, and the pseudoscience of criminal profiling.
Highly readable, this is an outstanding text for upper-level
courses in psychology and law; it will also be useful for
professionals in the criminal justice system."--Mitchell Eisen,
PhD, Professor and Director, Forensic Psychology Graduate Program,
California State University, Los Angeles
“Prominent scholars provide thorough summaries of the literature in
each of the major domains of scholarship in psychology and law.
Accessible, critical, and engaging, this text will be of great
value to students, practitioners, and researchers--it fills a gap
in the field."--Michael E. Lamb, PhD, Department of Psychology,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Editor, Psychology, Public
Policy, and Law
"This beautifully crafted text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date
discussion of contemporary debates and issues at the interface of
psychology and criminal law. Readers learn how social, cognitive,
clinical and forensic psychology inform a broad range of processes
within criminal justice systems. Each chapter is written by one or
more experts at the cutting edge of their respective fields who
understand the benefits and challenges of translating science into
practice. This is a worthy successor to Brewer and Williams's 2005
Psychology and Law, which has informed my teaching and research for
over a decade. It will doubtless be regarded as the authoritative
work on psychological science and the law for students,
researchers, practitioners, and policymakers."--Kimberley A. Wade,
PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, United
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