Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice

by Carson, David; Milne, Rebecca; Pakes, Francis; Shalev, Karen; Shawyer, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780470015155
• ISBN10: 0470015152
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-04
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Few things should go together better than psychology and law - and few things are getting together less successfully. Edited by four psychologists and a lawyer, and drawing on contributions from Europe, the USA and Australia, Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice argues that psychology should be applied more widely within the criminal justice system. Contributors develop the case for successfully applying psychology to justice by providing a rich range of applicable examples for development now and in the future. Readers are encouraged to challenge the limited ambition and imagination of psychology and law by examining how insights in areas such as offender cognition and decision-making under pressure might inform future investigation and analysis.

Author Biography

All of the editors are based at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at Portsmouth University, which is the UK’s largest provider of criminal justice courses. David Carson is Reader in Law and Behavioural Sciences and is qualified as a lawyer. Becky Milne and Francis Pakes are both senior lecturers at the Institute. Karen Shalev is a lecturer, and Andrea Shawyer is a university tutor.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Psychology and Law: A Science to be Applied	p. 1
Eyewitness Identification	p. 21
Behavioural Science and the Law: Investigation	p. 39
Investigative Interviewing: The Role of Research	p. 65
Credibility Assessments in a Legal Context	p. 81
Fact Finding and Evidence	p. 97
A Psychology and Law of Fact finding?	p. 115
Criminal Responsibility	p. 131
Criminal Thinking	p. 147
The Mentally Disordered Offender: Disenablers for the Delivery of Justice	p. 167
Decision Making in Criminal Justice	p. 183
A Behavioural Science Perspective on Identifying and Managing Hindsight Bias and Unstructured Judgement: Implications for Legal Decision Making	p. 201
To Decide or not to Decide: Decision Making and Decision Avoidance in Critical Incidents	p. 211
Processes: Proving Guilt, Disproving Innocence	p. 233
The Changing Nature of Adversarial, Inquisitorial and Islamic Trials	p. 251
Misapplication of Psychology in Court	p. 265
Identifying Liability for Organizational Errors	p. 283
Applying Key Civil Law Concepts	p. 299
Index	p. 311
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