[PDF] Social Psychology Of The Criminal Justice System eBook

Author : Margit E. Oswald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1119161193

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In recent years, research interest has increased both in the needs of punishment by the public and in the psychological processes underlying decisions on sentencing. This comprehensive look at the social psychology of punishment focuses on recent advances, and presents new findings based on the authors’ own empirical research. Chapters explore the application of social psychology and social cognitive theories to decision making in the context of punishments by judges and the punitiveness of laymen. The book also highlights the different legal systems in the UK, US and Europe, discussing how attitudes to punishment can change in the context of cultural and social development.

Author : David Canter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN :

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Crime is always part of a social process and this process often determines the form the crime takes. In this ground-breaking book crimes as diverse as fraud and hostage taking are examined in terms of the social psychological processes that influence the participants and their relationships with each other.

Author : Dan Simon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674065115

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Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.

Author : Dan Simon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674070216

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The criminal justice process is unavoidably human. Police detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape the course of investigations, while prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. In this sweeping review of psychological research, Dan Simon shows how flawed investigations can produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. The investigator’s task is genuinely difficult and prone to bias. This often leads investigators to draw faulty conclusions, assess suspects’ truthfulness incorrectly, and conduct coercive interrogations that can lead to false confessions. Eyewitnesses’ identification of perpetrators and detailed recollections of criminal events rely on cognitive processes that are often mistaken and can easily be skewed by the investigative procedures used. In the courtroom, jurors and judges are ill-equipped to assess the accuracy of testimony, especially in the face of the heavy-handed rhetoric and strong emotions that crimes arouse. Simon offers an array of feasible ways to improve the accuracy of criminal investigations and trials. While the limitations of human cognition will always be an obstacle, these reforms can enhance the criminal justice system’s ability to decide correctly whom to release and whom to punish.

Author : Hermann Wegener
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3642860176

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Readers of this book can gain novel insight into the various theoretical perspectives of psychology and law. It is demonstrated that psychology is not simply an applied discipline in the legal area, but that it contains its own concepts and paradigms for basic research. Legal psychology proves to be an independent, interdisciplinary part of psychology. The contributions represent the experience of different nationalities and judicial systems; emphasis is placed throughout on criminal law. Topics considered include: prediction and explanation of criminal behavior; legal thought, attribution, and sentencing; eyewitness testimony; and correctional treatment with clinical and organizational aspects.

Author : Alfred Cohn
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Law
ISBN :

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The Cohn and Udolf manuscript deals with the criminal justice system and its psychology.

Author : Geoffrey Stephenson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780631145479

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The Psychology of Criminal Justice integrates aspects of psychology's contributions to criminology and to socio-legal studies within a single narrative framework. It does this by describing the interpersonal and group dynamics of decision-making at key stages in the processing of accused persons from the time an alleged offence is committed to the moment sentence is passed. The book bears directly on many current debates concerning the ability of the criminal justice system to deliver reliable verdicts. It recognizes the interdependence of decision makers in the system and addresses questions at an appropriately social-psychological level. The book examines systematically and critically the dynamics of criminal decision-making, the response of victims, the assumptions, attitudes and behavior of police officers, the conduct of court proceedings, the performance of witnesses, the strengths and weaknesses of juries, and the sentencing of magistrates and judges. Discussions of law and morality, the attribution of blame in court and in everyday life, and the achievement of justice in interpersonal and organizational contexts, provide a definitive account of the social psychology of law in the context of criminal justice. Problems with our adversarial system of justice have led to the establishment of a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. It is commonplace to seek a scapegoat in the behavior of one or other protagonist in the system - especially the police. It will become clear to readers of this book that breakdowns of the system are a product of persuasive interpersonal and intergroup processes of organization, reaching well beyond the behavior of any one agent.