Law and Psychology Current Legal Issues Volume 9

by Brooks-Gordon, Belinda; Freeman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199211395
• ISBN10: 0199211396
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Current Legal Issues , like its sister volume Current Legal Problems , is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year, leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloqium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyzes points of controversy in the use, and abuse of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Psychology , the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and psychology. The volume includes studies of jury trials in terrorism cases, psychological evidence in family law cases, child witness testimony and the role of psychology in punishment theory.

Author Biography

Belinda Brooks-Gordonis Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, London.
Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London, he is the series editor for Current Legal Issues.

Table of Contents

Law And Psychology: Issues for Today

Breaking Down the Barriers

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Enhancing the Relationship Between Law and Psychology

Legal Decision Making: Psychological Reality Meets Legal Idealism

Can Cognitive Neuroscience Make Psychology a Foundational Discipline for the Study of Law?

How Psychology is Changing The Punishment Theory Debate

Modelling Systematic Communication Differences Between Law and Science

Cognitive Errors, Individual Differences, and Paternalism

Developmentally Appropriate Interview Techniques

Nothing But The Truth: Achieving Best Evidence Through Interviewing in the Forensic Setting

Lie Detection Assessments as Evidence in Criminal Courts

Towards a Broader Perspective on the Problem of Mistaken Identification: Police Decision-Making And Identification Procedures

Child Witness Testimony: What Do We Know And Where Are We Going?

The Controversy over Psychological Evidence in Family Law Cases

Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Can Psychology Inform Legal Decisions?

Legal and Psychological Approaches to Understanding Domestic Violence for American Indian Women

Worlds Colliding: Legal Regulation And Psychologists' Evidence about Workplace Bullying

Psychology, Law and Murders of Gay Men: Responding to Homosexual Advances

Trial By Jury Involving Persons Accused of Terrorism or Supporting Terrorism

Muddying the Waters with Red Herrings: Jurors, Juries and Expert Evidence

Judith Fordham: Muddying the Waters with Red Herrings: Jurors, Juries and Expert Evidence

Conflicts over Territory: Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation and Young People

Psychology as Reconstituted by Education and Law; The Case of Children with Autism

The Construction of Memory Through Law and Law's Responsiveness to Children

A Dual Process that Disables the Persuasive Impact of Mass Media Appeals to Obey Tax Laws

Consumer Bankruptcy Reform and the Heuristic Borrower

Regulating Prostitution

Psychoanalysis and the Nazis

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