The Psychology and Law of Criminal Justice Processes

Capa
Nova Publishers, 2006 - 723 páginas
Psychological science now reveals much about the law's response to crime. This is the first text to bridge both fields as it presents psychological research and theory relevant to each phase of criminal justice processes. The materials are divided into three parts that follow a comprehensive introduction. The introduction analyses the major legal themes and values that guide criminal justice processes and points to the many psychological issues they raise. Part I examines how the legal system investigates and apprehends criminal suspects. Topics range from the identification, searching and seizing to the questioning of suspects. Part II focuses on how the legal system establishes guilt. To do so, it centres on the process of bargaining and pleading cases, assembling juries, providing expert witnesses, and considering defendants' mental states. Part III focuses on the disposition of cases. Namely, that part highlights the process of sentencing defendants, predicting criminal tendencies, treating and controlling offenders, and determining eligibility for such extreme punishments as the death penalty. The format seeks to give readers a feeling for the entire criminal justice process and for the role psychological science has and can play in it.
 

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Criminal Justice Processes Competing Ideologies Recurring Principles and Considering the Role of Psychological Science
1
Part I Investigating and Apprehending Criminal Suspects
25
Identifying Suspects
27
Searching Suspects
83
Seizing Suspects
139
Interrogating Suspects
191
Determining Defendants Guilt or Innocence
255
Bargaining with Defendants
257
Determining the Defendants Mental State and Capacity
419
Sentencing Defendants and Predicting Criminal Tendencies
481
Treating and Controlling Offenders
547
Terminating the Life of Criminals
611
Key Federal Constitutional Provisions
675
Understanding Case Law
677
General Categories of Criminal Homicide Murder and Manslaughter
679
Major Psychiatric Disorders
681

Judging Juries
293
Evaluating Experts
373
Part III Formulating Criminal Dispositions
417
Legal Glossary
687
Index
699
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