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Psychology and the legal system / Lawrence S. Wrightsman ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2002.Edition: 5th edDescription: xxii, 586 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0534365442 (hard : acidfree paper)
ISSN:
  • 9780534365448
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF8700 .W75
Contents:
1. Psychology and the law - impossible choices; 1 2. Psychologists and the legal system; 28 3. Legality, morality and justice; 49 4. The legal system and its players 74 5. Theories of crime; 104 6. The police and the criminal justice system; 138 7. Crime investigation: eyewitnesses; 168 8. Identification and evaluation of criminal suspects; 206 9. The rights of victims and the rights of the accused; 236 10. Between arrest and trial; 260 Competence in the lega1 system; 332 13. The trial process; 359 14. Jury trials I: jury representation and selection; 383 15. Jury trials II: Assumptions and reforms; 408 16. Psychology of victims 442 17. punishment and sentencing; The appellate process and the supreme court. (Each chapter concludes with a summary.) 474
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Rev. ed. of: Psychology & the legal system / Lawrence S. Wrightsman. 4th ed. 1998.

1. Psychology and the law - impossible choices; 1
2. Psychologists and the legal system; 28
3. Legality, morality and justice; 49
4. The legal system and its players 74
5. Theories of crime; 104
6. The police and the criminal justice system; 138
7. Crime investigation: eyewitnesses; 168
8. Identification and evaluation of criminal suspects; 206
9. The rights of victims and the rights of the accused; 236
10. Between arrest and trial; 260
Competence in the lega1 system; 332
13. The trial process; 359
14. Jury trials I: jury representation and selection; 383
15. Jury trials II: Assumptions and reforms; 408
16. Psychology of victims 442
17. punishment and sentencing; The appellate process and the supreme court. (Each chapter concludes with a summary.) 474

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