In Doubt - The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process

Klappentext Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives! witnesses! suspects! and victims shape investigations; prosecutors! defense attorneys! jurors! and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. Zusammenfassung Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives! witnesses! suspects! and victims shape investigations; prosecutors! defense attorneys! jurors! and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Simon, Simon Dan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2012
• EAN: 9780674046153
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04615-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal or forensic psychology, Jurisprudence & general issues, Crime and criminology