Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

Stolle, D. P., Wexler, D. B., & Winick, B. J. (Eds.). (2000). Practicing therapeutic jurisprudence: Law as a helping profess ...

recognition; however, once again there was no indica- tion of the persistence of the improvement or whether the improvement coul ...

English. When a trial participant does not speak or understand English, court interpreters are used. The court interpreter’s tas ...

additional finding from this research is that the jurors’ own language use influences both voting preference prior to deliberati ...

linguistic minorities. The establishment of state and federal training and certification procedures ensures that courts handle s ...

Treatment Treatment for NGRIs is delivered primarily by the public mental system. The first public mental hospi- tals in the Uni ...

Public Sentiment and the Insanity Defense Research conducted from the 1960s through the 1980s reveals that the public views NGRI ...

communities and the criminal justice system. Whereas between 1966 and 1983 the insanity defense was a viable defense for a wide ...

consultation and trial strategy, witness preparation, jury-related services, or presentation and technology- related services. T ...

Someone who acquires training under the tutelage of a consultant who has built a practice around certain types of cases would li ...

However, the ASTC has outlined some practice guide- lines for some services (e.g., witness preparation, jury selection), and its ...

trial consultants assisting with jury selection. Generally, jury selection involves attempts to identify jurors who are sympathe ...

knowledge about the parties as well as preexisting beliefs about guilt or liability. FFooccuuss GGrroouupp aanndd TTrriiaall SSi ...

actual jurors in the case. At the end of each day, the trial consultant meets with the shadow jurors to discuss what has been pr ...

821 UNCONSCIOUSTRANSFERENCE Unconscious transference is a memory error that occurs when an eyewitness to a crime misidentifies a ...

different places (at the crime scene and the place where they saw the familiar foil), recollecting the previous encounter with t ...

assessment instruments should be used. Research examining the psychometric properties of this system is currently lacking. The U ...

UCCES-based recommendations are more reliable or valid than non-UCCES-based recommendations ulti- mately is an empirical questio ...

Operations of the Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court does not conduct “trials” in the sense of evidence presentation, cross-ex ...

Decision-Making Criteria Just as jurors in a criminal or civil case use standards of proof in deciding how to vote in a trial (e ...