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Forensic and Legal Psychology
Psychological Science Applied to LawFourth Edition| ©2021 Mark Costanzo; Daniel Krauss
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From investigations to court cases to policymaking—Exploring how psychological science influences the law
Available in print and e-book formats, Mark Costanzo and Daniel Krauss’s text show students how psychological science can be used to reduce crime, improve legal decision making, and promote justice. Fully integrated discussions of real cases and trials, along with other examples of the legal system in action, show how research and theory can deepen our understanding of suspects, criminals, police, victims, lawyers, witnesses, judges, and jurors.
Features
Hot Topics boxes discuss issues such as the decision to confess (Chapter 3), modern biometrics (chapter 4); Cameras and computers as "eyewitnesses" (Chapter 6), and risk algorithms and bias (chapter 15).
Scientific American Spotlights boxes highlight important new research, including the use and misuse of brain scans in the courtroom (Chapter 1); the cognitive burden of lying (Chapter 3); implicit racial bias and police shootings (Chapter 5); Psychopathy (Chapter 5 ); the use of projective tests in child custody cases (Chapter 13); selecting and training police officers (Chapter 14;); the relationship between mental illness and violence (Chapter 15).
Consider This boxes explore special topics in the study of psychology and the law, such as using Familial DNA to identify Criminal Suspects (Chapter 4).
Legal Spotlight boxes focus on topics related to specific legal issues. Newly featured topics include Changed Science Laws (chapter 4); Legal Issues in Competency for Execution (Chapter 8); and The Constitutionality of prohibiting an insanity defense (chapter 10).
Focus on Careers boxes give students a chance to read firsthand accounts police and forensic psychologists, social science analysts, trial consultants, violence risk experts, and correctional psychologists.
End-of-chapter Discussion and Critical Thinking Questions reinforce student learning and encourage students to think more deeply about concepts.
Full chapters on:
Forensic identification (DNA, fingerprints, and other types of physical trace evidence), its reliance on human judgment and vulnerability to error based on perceptual and cognitive biases.
Workplace law including coverage of sexual harassment, prejudice and discrimination, work–family conflicts, and perceptions of fairness in the workplace.
Lie detection including how interrogators, lawyers, jurors, and judges attempt to detect the lies of suspects, witnesses, and criminals as well as the use of technology to reveal deception.
Corrections, including coverage sentencing decisions, imprisonment, and alternatives to prison, and research on the effectiveness of punishment and rehabilitation.
Risk assessment including the process and accuracy of predicting future dangerousness in parole in arrest, sentencing, and parole decisions.
The death penalty including exploration of topics such as deterrence, racial disparities, and the possibility of error, and decision process of capital jurors.
New to This Edition
New discussion of Supreme Court decision involving harsh punishment for juvenile offenders. (Ch.1)
New research on lie detection including emerging technologies for lie detection; brain activation in fMRI students of deception; discerning when others are lying. (Ch.2)
New coverage of interrogations and confessions including requiring probable cause for interrogations, how juries are instructed to assess confessions and how interrogation affects the decision to confess. (Ch.3)
New research on DNA evidence, confirmation bias in fingerprint identification and using familial DNA matches to identify criminal suspects (Ch. 4)
New Scientific American Spotlight: What “Psychopath” Means (Ch. 5)
New Hot Topic 4.1: Cameras and Computers as “Eyewitnesses”
New major section, The Hidden, Consequential World of Plea Bargaining (Ch. 9)
New Legal Spotlight: Is it Constitutional to Prohibit an Insanity and Instead Allow Mens Rhea Defense? with focus on case of James Kahler—Kahler v. Kansas, 2020 (Ch. 10)
New Hot Topic: Pretrial Detention and the Use of Risk Algorithms: Are they biased? (Ch. 15)
"This book would be an asset to anyone who teaches in areas of psychology and the law."
—Brian Nolan, Missouri Valley College
"The organization, the incorporation of research, and the explanations of the legal underpinnings are all strengths"
—Andrew Perkins, University of Arizona
"The chapters are well written and accessible for students.... There are great examples [and] I like that each chapter begins with a vignette."
—Sarah Thimsen, South Dakota State University
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Psychology and Law: A Cautious AllianceChapter 2: Lie Detection
Chapter 3: Interrogations and Confessions
Chapter 4: The Psychology of Forensic Identification: DNA, Fingerprints, and Other Types of Physical Trace Evidence
Chapter 5: Criminal Profiling and Psychological Autopsies
Chapter 6: Eyewitness Identification and Testimony
Chapter 7: Child Sexual Abuse: Interviewing Children and Assessing the Recovered Memories of Adults
Chapter 8: Competency to Stand Trial
Chapter 9: Plea Bargaining, Jury Selection, and Trial Procedure
Chapter 10: The Insanity Defense
Chapter 11: Intimate Partner Violence, Battered Woman Syndrome, Rape Trauma Syndrome, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 12: Juries and Judges as Decision Makers
Chapter 13: Child Custody Disputes
Chapter 14: Workplace Law: Harassment, Discrimination, and Fairness
Chapter 15: Predicting Violent Behavior: The Psychology of Risk Assessment
Chapter 16: Corrections: Sentencing, Imprisonment, and Alternatives
Chapter 17: The Death Penalty
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Mark Costanzo
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Daniel Krauss
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