Wrightsman's Psychology and the Legal System, 6th Edition

Edie Greene - University of Colorado

Kirk Heilbrun - Drexel University

William H. Fortune - University of Kentucky

Michael T. Nietzel - University of Kentucky

ISBN-10: 0534521061  ISBN-13: 9780534521066

608 Pages   Casebound

© 2007     Published

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Table of Contents

1. Psychology and the Law: Impossible Choices.
2. The Legal System and its Players.
3. Psychology of Crime.
4. Psychology of Police.
5. Crime Investigation: Witnesses.
6. Identification and Evaluation of Criminal Suspects.
7. Between Arrest and Trial.
8. Forensic Assessment in Criminal Cases: Competence and Insanity.
9. Forensic Assessment in Civil Cases.
10. The Trial Process.
11. Jury Trials I: Jury Represtantativeness and Selection.
12. Jury Trials II: Concerns and Reforms.
13. Psychology of Victims.
14. Children, Adolescents, and the Law.
15. Punishment, Sentencing, and Corrections.