Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

667 RACE, IMPACT ONJURIES The relationship between race and the decision making of juries is complex and controversial. Media an ...

researchers have come to focus on behavioral measures in the effort to assess the influence of race. This devel- opment mirrors ...

unambiguously strong, the crime in question is particu- larly heinous, or the victim is also of the same race as the juror. Stud ...

influential in any particular case or whether a different verdict would have been reached by a jury with a dif- ferent compositi ...

did not mean that racial issues actually entered into sentencing decisions in Georgia. The Court also argued that the study’s re ...

Further Readings Amnesty International. (2003, April 24). Death by discrimination: The continuing role of race in capital cases. ...

problems, and substance abuse. These symptoms are both common in rape victims and more common in victims than in nonvictims. Som ...

argue that the defense should be allowed to compel an examination of a complainant if the prosecution expert did an examination ...

(Belgium, Canada, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United States, and Wales). Interrater reliability tests hav ...

left out of a memory report, and errors of commission, in which inaccurate information is added to a memory report. Errors of co ...

sequence of actions in a bank robbery. For example, a bank robbery script may include information like the robbers take out weap ...

The postevent information paradigm was further extended to examine adult memories for childhood events implanted by suggestion. ...

by law enforcement in structuring interrogation. Unfortunately, the Reid Technique is sometimes mis- applied by law enforcement. ...

The second step,theme development,is the step in which the police present a hypothesis about the reason for which the suspect co ...

Expert Testimony About Interrogation Techniques and Confessions Even if the confession has previously been determined to be admi ...

Because few states prohibit using religious factors to exclude potential jurors, most lawyers are able to do so. Psychologists c ...

committing adultery and is about to be stoned to death. Jesus tells her would-be executioners that only a man who is without sin ...

See alsoAmerican Bar Association Resolution on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty; Death Penalty; Juveniles and the Death P ...

occurs independent of the content of the questions; in fact, just asking a witness to think repeatedly about an event can lead t ...

violent rather than property crimes, for completed than attempted crimes, for crimes in which the victim suf- fered more serious ...