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"This Handbook provides students and researchers with a broad overview of existing literature in many areas of legal decision-making, including examples of decisions made by different professionals. Inspiring future research and practice, it will interest those in psychology, sociology, criminal justice, and more"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Introductions: 1. A modern approach to the psychology of legal decision making; 2. 'I Hope the final judgment's fair': alternative jurisprudences, legal decision-making, and justice; 3. Diversity and bias in legal decision making: broadening frameworks and addressing overlooked issues; 4: Judicial decision-making; Part II. Pre-trial phase decision-making: 5. Victim decision-making; 6. Bystanders' crime reporting decisions; 7. Pre-Trial publicity's effects on jurors' and judges' decision; 8. Police decisions involved in collecting eyewitness identification evidence; 9. Decisions related to miranda rights; 10. Judges' daubert decisions; 11. The psychology of confession decision making during police Interrogation; 12. Plea bargaining: understanding the decision-making processes of plea negotiation; 13. Forensic science decision-making: expertise lends both skills and vulnerabilities; 14. Decision-making by forensic mental health evaluators; 15. Interviewing suspects in criminal investigations: decisions and their consequences; 16: Prosecutorial decision-making in cases of child sexual abuse: lessons from Australia; 17. Decision-Making about restoration of defendants who are incompetent to stand trial; 18. Clinical decision-making regarding criminal responsibility; 19. Decision-Making regarding child victims and witnesses; Part III. Trial phase decision-making: 20. Social cognition of jury decision-making; 21. Beliefs about juror decision-making and the jury process; 22. Deciphering directives: juror decision-making challenges with understanding judicial instructions; 23. Decisions surrounding the use of expert testimony; 24. Legal and extra-legal factors that affect jurors' decisions; 25. Decisions regarding insanity; 26. Decision making in the shadow of evidence law; 27. Decision-making in contested divorce child custody cases; Part IV. Post-conviction phase decisions: 28. Amenability to treatment evaluations: understanding decision points and new information regarding assessment; 29. Choosing between life and death: capital jury penalty phase decision-making; 30. The communication of risk to legal decision-makers; 31. Psychology of parole decision-making; 32. Probation decision-making; 33. Decision-making in violence risk assessment; Part V. Other legal decision-making: 34. Decision making in immigration court; 35. Evaluation decisions by psychologists about causation and damages in personal injury and employment discrimination cases: a pragmatic five-stage model for courts; 36. Factors influencing the decision to commit white collar crime: integrating affluenza with established risks; 37. Tort law decision-making: psychological and legal perspectives; 38. Judicial decision-making in juvenile dependency and juvenile justice cases; 39. Legislative decision making; 40. Decision-Making in alternative dispute resolution; 41. Criminal decision-making; 42. Social worker decision-making: a framework for legally literate accountable practice; 43. Decision-Making in civil matters: the role of substituted judgment; Part VI. Perspectives from the field: 44. Culturally competent perspectives and a legally literate practice promote quality decisions in social work; 45. Making probation decisions in the real world; 46. Justice for all: reflections as a clinician at the intersections; 47. Police officer decisions in interrogations and investigations; 48. Restoration: the sequel to incompetency to stand trial; 49. To tell or not to tell; is that the question?: victim decision-making; 50. Diversity in legal decision-making; Conclusion: 51. Conclusions from the field of legal decision-making.
Zusammenfassung
This Handbook provides students and researchers with a broad overview of existing literature in many areas of legal decision-making, including examples of decisions made by different professionals. Inspiring future research and practice, it will interest those in psychology, sociology, criminal justice, and more.
