{"product_id":"expert-psychological-testimony-for-the-courts-claremont-symposium-on-applied-social-psychology-series-9780805856477","title":"Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the past two decades, the frequency and range of expert testimony by psychologists have increased dramatically. Courts now routinely hear expert testimony from clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists. \u003ci\u003eExpert Psychological Testimony for the Courts\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of the content, ethics, and impact of expert testimony. This book features leading scholars who have contributed to the scientific foundation for expert testimony and who have also served as expert witnesses. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe opening chapter explores issues surrounding the admissibility of expert testimony, and the closing chapter explores the ethics and limits of psychological testimony. Each of the intervening chapters focuses on a different area of expert testimony: forensic identification, police interrogations and false confessions, eyewitness identification, sexual harassment, mitigation in capital cases, the insanity defense, battered women, future dan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Costanzo, D. Krauss, K. Pezdek,\u003c\/b\u003e Varieties and Vagaries of Expert Psychological Testimony: An Introduction. \u003cb\u003eB.D. Sales, D.W. Shuman,\u003c\/b\u003e Science, Experts, and Law: Reflections on the Past and the Future. \u003cb\u003eW.C. Thompson, S.A. Cole,\u003c\/b\u003e Psychological Aspects of Forensic Identification Evidence. \u003cb\u003eM. Costanzo, R.A. Leo, \u003c\/b\u003eResearch and Expert Testimony on Interrogations and Confessions. \u003cb\u003eK. Pezdek,\u003c\/b\u003e Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Memory and Identification. \u003cb\u003eM. O’Connor,\u003c\/b\u003e Expert Testimony in Sexual Harassment Cases: Its Scope, Limits, and Effectiveness. \u003cb\u003eK.L. Salekin,\u003c\/b\u003e Capital Mitigation From a Developmental Perspective: The Importance of Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and the Construct of Resilience. \u003cb\u003eN.J. Finkel,\u003c\/b\u003e Insanity’s Disconnect, the Law’s Madness, and the Irresistible Impulses of Experts. \u003cb\u003eR.A. Schuller, G. Jenkins,\u003c\/b\u003e Expert Evidence Pertaining to Battered Women: Limitations and Reconceptualizations. \u003cb\u003eD. Krauss, J. Lieberman,\u003c\/b\u003e Expert Testimony on Risk and Future Dangerousness. \u003cb\u003eR.K. Otto, D.A. Martindale,\u003c\/b\u003e The Law, Process, and Science of Child Custody Evaluation. \u003cb\u003eM.J. Saks, R.I. Lanyon\u003c\/b\u003e, Pitfalls and Ethics of Expert Testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405651845463,"sku":"9780805856477","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805856477.jpg?v=1730493141","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expert-psychological-testimony-for-the-courts-claremont-symposium-on-applied-social-psychology-series-9780805856477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}