Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court

Lawrence Wrightsman

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments. By carefully analyzing transcr... Lees meer

Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient

Susan Stefan

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and short-staffed, with a limited number of available hospital beds. It is increasingly hard for e... Lees meer

Juveniles at Risk

Christopher Slobogin, Mark R Fondacaro

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• First established at the end of the 19th century, the juvenile justice system has long been searching for an effective set of guiding principles. Over... Lees meer

Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity

Roger J R Levesque

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• An empirical look at the U.S legal system's effectiveness in addressing school segregation reveals that segregation persists and even surpasses levels... Lees meer

Murder in the Courtroom

Brigitte Vallabhajosula

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Answers to many legal questions often depend on our understanding of the relationship between the human brain and behavior. While there is no evidence... Lees meer

Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification

Brian L Cutler

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Eyewitness testimony is highly compelling in a criminal trial, and can have an indelible impact on jurors. However, two decades of research on the sub... Lees meer

Ethics of Total Confinement

Bruce A Arrigo, Heather Y Bersot, Brian G Sellers

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, an... Lees meer

Psychological Injuries

William J Koch, Kevin S Douglas, Tonia L Nicholls, Melanie L O'Neill

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been ... Lees meer

Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact

Barbara Jo Fidler, Nicholas Bala, Michael A Saini

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact is a critical, empirically based review of parental alienation that integrates the best research e... Lees meer

Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System

Joanna Pozzulo, Emily Pica, Chelsea Sheahan

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Eyewitness research has focused mainly on stranger identification, but identification is also critical for the "familiar stranger", and understanding ... Lees meer

The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• While scholars in the past several decades have made great progress in explaining what judges do, there remains a certain lack of depth to our underst... Lees meer

The Miranda Ruling

Lawrence S Wrightsman, Mary L Pitman

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Where did Miranda go wrong? The purpose of this book is to identify and describe four problems with the implementation of the Miranda decision and to ... Lees meer

A System of Pleas

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Over 95% of criminal convictions are by guilty plea. Trials are the rarity, and while much has been written on jury decision making and various parts ... Lees meer

Stress, Trauma, and Wellbeing in the Legal System

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• All individuals face stress in their daily lives, but this is often particularly true for those who enforce the law, administer justice, or are forced... Lees meer

The Psychology of the Supreme Court

Lawrence S Wrightsman

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the high... Lees meer

Jury Under Fire

Brian H Bornstein, Edie Greene

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Although the jury is often referred to as one of the bulwarks of the American justice system, it regularly comes under attack. Recent changes to trial... Lees meer

International Perspectives on Violence Risk Assessment

Jay P Singh

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• With the world's prison population continuing to grow and the number of secure inpatient beds in psychiatric hospitals on the rise, establishing valid... Lees meer

Hugo Münsterberg's Psychology and Law

Bornstein

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Psychological research has much to offer the criminal justice system. One of the first to recognize this was the German-American psychologist Hugo Mün... Lees meer

The Behavioral Science of Firearms

Gianni Pirelli, Hayley Wechsler, Robert J Cramer

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, pract... Lees meer

International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law

Michael L Perlin

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons w... Lees meer

God in the Courtroom

Brian Bornstein, Monica Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• While the concept of "God in the courtroom" evokes a few grand images, there are numerous, often subtle, ways in which religion and law intersect. For... Lees meer

Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law

Roger J R Levesque

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law provides a foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents. Roger Levesque argues tha... Lees meer

Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending

Joel A Dvoskin, Jennifer L Skeem, Raymond W Novaco

• Hardcover | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Over the past three decades, the American criminal justice system has become unapologetically punitive. High rates of incarceration and frequent use o... Lees meer

Psychology, Law, and the Wellbeing of Children

• Paperback | Engels | American Psychology-Law Society
• Lawmakers and judges often enact and enforce laws and policies that impact youth. The extent to which these legal actions are sensitive to juveniles' ... Lees meer