Over the years, psychologists have devoted uncountable hours to
learning how human beings make judgments and decisions. As much
progress as scholars have made in explaining what judges do over
the past few decades, there remains a certain lack of depth to our
understanding. Even where scholars can make consensual and
successful predictions of a judge's behavior, they will often
disagree sharply about exactly what happens in the judge's mind to
generate the predicted result. This volume of essays examines the
psychological processes that underlie judicial decision making. The
first section of the book takes as its starting point the fact that
judges make many of the same judgments and decisions that ordinary
people make and considers how our knowledge about judgment and
decision-making in general applies to the case of legal judges. In
the second section, chapters focus on the specific tasks that
judges perform within a unique social setting and examine the
expertise and particular modes of reasoning that judges develop to
deal with their tasks in this unique setting. Finally, the third
section raises questions about whether and how we can evaluate
judicial performance, with implications for the possibility of
improving judging through the selection and training of judges and
structuring of judicial institutions. Together the essays apply a
wide range of psychological insights to help us better understand
how judges make decisions and to open new avenues of inquiry into
the influences on judicial behavior.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Psychology-Law Society Series |
Release date: |
February 2010 |
First published: |
February 2010 |
Editors: |
David E. Klein
(Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Politics)
• Gregory Mitchell
(Professor of Law and E. James Kelly, Jr.-Class of 1965 Research Professor)
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Dimensions: |
243 x 162 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-536758-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Clinical psychology >
General
Promotions
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LSN: |
0-19-536758-8 |
Barcode: |
9780195367584 |
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