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Psychology and the Legal System

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ISBN-10: 049581301X

ISBN-13: 9780495813019

Edition: 7th 2011

Authors: Edith Greene, Kirk Heilbrun, William H. Fortune, Michael T. Nietzel, Lawrence Wrightsman

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Book details

List price: $239.95
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 2/25/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Kirk Heilbrun is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology, Drexel University. His current research focuses on juvenile and adult offenders, legal decision-making, and the evaluation and interventions associated with such decision-making. He is the Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Mental Health and Justice Center of Excellence, having previously served as president of both the American Psychology-Law Psychology/APA Division 41, and the American Board of Forensic Psychology. He received the 2004 Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology award and the 2008 Beth Clark Distinguished Service Contribution Award from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.

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.

Psychology and the law: Choices and roles
The legal system: Issues, structure, and players
Psychology of Crime
Psychology of Police
Crime investigation: Witnesses
Evaluating Criminal Suspects
Between arrest and trial
Forensic assessment in juvenile and criminal cases
Forensic assessment in civil cases
The trial process
Jury representativeness and selection
The jury: Decision processes and reforms
Psychology of victims of crime and violence
Psychology of punishment and sentencing
Juvenile and adult corrections