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Drawing on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Jennifer Lackey shows how in the American criminal legal system testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. She urges the need to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the system.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Credibility and Testimonial Injustice
- Credibility
- Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice
- Distributive Testimonial Injustice
- Normative Testimonial Injustice
- Wide Norm of Credibility
- Moving Beyond the Standard Conception of Testimonial Injustice
- False Confessions and Agential Testimonial Injustice
- False Confessions
- Testimonial Injustice
- Extracted Testimony
- Credibility Excess
- Agential Testimonial Injustice
- Why?
- Conclusion
- Eyewitness Testimony and Epistemic Agency
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Manipulation, Deception, and Coercion
- Credibility Excess
- Other Forms of Extraction
- Moving Forward
- Conclusion
- Plea Deals and Systemic Testimonial Injustice
- Coercion
- Plea Deals
- Epistemic Deficits
- Agential Testimonial Injustice
- Conclusion
- Race, Gender, and the Multi-Directional Model of Credibility Assessments
- The Multi-Directional Model
- Race
- Gender
- Other Forms of Extraction: Recantations by Victims in Domestic Violence Cases
- Conclusion
- Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings
- Sentencing Hearings
- Parole Hearings
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
About the author
Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Summary
Drawing on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Jennifer Lackey shows how in the American criminal legal system testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. She urges the need to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the system.
Additional text
Lackey identifies a form of epistemic injustice that she reveals as endemic in the US criminal justice system. The resulting critique is as compelling as it is far-reaching.
