Ewing Charles Patrick: Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology
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Жанр : Oxford University Press
Издательство : Oxford University Press
Год издания : 2006
Аннотация:
- Only book of its kind to detail high-profile court cases that involve psychological issues such as the insanity defense, capital punishment, and criminal profiling, among others — Book has broad appeal among professionals in the forensic psychology field, as well as students and general readers Everyday, in courtrooms everywhere, people's lives are touched and shaped by judgments and verdicts influenced by the testimony of psychologists and other mental health experts. This casebook details 20 high-profile court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists and involved such psychological issues as insanity, criminal profiling, capital punishment, competence to stand trial, infanticide, domestic violence, false confessions, and psychological autopsies. The defendents in these cases range from household names such as Woodly Allen, Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jeffrey Dahmer to others whose brief brush with infamy has long been forgotten. But regardless of their notoriety or celebrity status, each of these carefully selected cases teaches important lessons about the role that psychology and the other behavioral sciences play in our legal system.