Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

because it is of course possible that the suspect is in fact not the offender. The NIJ Guide for Law Enforcement goes a step fur ...

view. This way, if the witness says something like “Number 4 looks a lot like the person I saw,” the lineup administrator does n ...

INADMISSIBLEEVIDENCE, IMPACT ONJURIES What is the impact on juror verdicts of inadmissible evidence that surfaces in the courtro ...

explanations during trial admonitions, and reinforcing charges at the end of the trial. Lessons from broader memory research sug ...

how jurors will respond to these variations and if they are able to distinguish among them. The standards that jurors are suppos ...

impact of varying case facts on decision making in insanity cases. Mock jurors seem to construe case information differently dep ...

the defense is raised; it also established the burden of proof in such cases. Although criminal law is primarily the province of ...

Again, whether this restriction narrows the test in practice is an open question because few defendants suffering from less seri ...

nation struggling with immigration, urbanization, poverty, disability, and industrialization. By the 1950s, several factors had ...

taxpayers to support such a system remains a major challenge. Like it or not, community-based care is here to stay. The costs of ...

arises from the reasons why witnesses do not identify the perpetrator in the first place. If witnesses who are presented with a ...

an approach was needed that stressed the possible, but not automatically assumed, linkage between psy- chopathology and incapaci ...

Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial–Revised (ECST–R); Fitness Interview Test–Revised (FIT–R); MacArthur Competence Assessmen ...

action is sensible). He concluded that the following techniques were very commonly used: Undermining suspects’ confidence in th ...

findings regarding interviews with suspects are the following: Although most make good efforts to encourage the suspects to giv ...

Davis, D., & O’Donohue, W. (2003). The road to perdition: Extreme influence tactics in the interrogation room. In W. O’Donoh ...

slapping or shoving, up to and including homicide. Unfortunately, some of the best-known and widely used measurement tools (e.g. ...

LLeetthhaalliittyy AAsssseessssmmeenntt Trying to predict severe injury or death as a result of battering is difficult. Many of ...

information about services available and how to access them and what to do if you or someone you know is a victim or a perpetrat ...

change, treatment is quite helpful as long as it is conducted within an ongoing lethality analysis. Once again, mental health pr ...