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Wrightman's Psychology and the Legal System (6TH 07 Edition)

by Edie Greene

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Publisher Comments:

The author team for WRIGHTSMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM, Sixth Edition combines complementary expertise, active research, writing careers, and real world experience (as consultants working within the legal system) to produce a comprehensive text that is unparalleled in scholarship and writing style. The authorship, research base and comprehensive coverage make this text popular with instructors and students. This text demonstrates the importance of psychology to understanding the legal system and the impact on individuals' everyday lives through the use of real cases and questions formed to create discussions of these cases.

Book News Annotation:

This undergraduate textbook explores the psychological dimensions of the legal system. In each of 15 chapters, case summaries describe real cases or trials that illustrate a legal concept or psychological principle. A sampling of topics includes the validity of polygraph procedures, the psychology of police, and social-psychological theories of crime. The sixth edition features a new chapter devoted to the specific issues of young people and the law.
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Book News Annotation:

This undergraduate textbook explores the psychological dimensions of the legal system. In each of 15 chapters, case summaries describe real cases or trials that illustrate a legal concept or psychological principle. A sampling of topics includes the validity of polygraph procedures, the psychology of police, and social-psychological theories of crime. The sixth edition features a new chapter devoted to the specific issues of young people and the law. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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About the Author

Edie Greene earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and law from the University of Washington in 1983, served as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington from 1983-1986, and is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.Kirk Heilbrun earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in psychology and criminal justice at Florida State University from 1981-1982. He is currently a professor of psychology and head of the Department of Psychology at Drexel University.William H. Fortune received his J.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1964 and is currently an Alumni Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky at Lexington.Michael T. Nietzel earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973 and is currently President of Missouri State University.
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Table of Contents

1. Psychology and the Law: Impossible Choices. 2. The Legal System and its Players. 3. Psychology of Crime. 4. Psychology of Police. 5. Crime Investigation: Witnesses. 6. Identification and Evaluation of Criminal Suspects. 7. Between Arrest and Trial. 8. Forensic Assessment in Criminal Cases: Competence and Insanity. 9. Forensic Assessment in Civil Cases. 10. The Trial Process. 11. Jury Trials I: Jury Represtantativeness and Selection. 12. Jury Trials II: Concerns and Reforms. 13. Psychology of Victims. 14. Children, Adolescents, and the Law. 15. Punishment, Sentencing, and Corrections.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780534521066
Author:
Greene, Edie
Publisher:
Wadsworth Publishing Company
Author:
Nietzel, Michael T.
Author:
Greene, Edith
Author:
Heilbrun, Kirk
Author:
Fortune, William H.
Subject:
Social Psychology
Subject:
Forensic Psychology
Subject:
Practice of law
Subject:
Justice, administration of
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Justice, Administration of -- United States.
Copyright:
2007
Edition Number:
6
Publication Date:
May 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
535
Dimensions:
1.68 in.
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