During the past two decades, the frequency and range of expert
testimony by psychologists have increased dramatically. Courts now
routinely hear expert testimony from clinical, cognitive,
developmental, and social psychologists. "Expert Psychological
Testimony for the Courts" provides a comprehensive, research-based
analysis of the content, ethics, and impact of expert testimony.
This book features leading scholars who have contributed to the
scientific foundation for expert testimony and who have also served
as expert witnesses.
The opening chapter explores issues surrounding the admissibility
of expert testimony, and the closing chapter explores the ethics
and limits of psychological testimony. Each of the intervening
chapters focuses on a different area of expert testimony: forensic
identification, police interrogations and false confessions,
eyewitness identification, sexual harassment, mitigation in capital
cases, the insanity defense, battered women, future dangerousness,
and child custody. These chapters describe the typical content of
expert testimony in a particular area, evaluate the scientific
foundation for testimony, examine how jurors respond to expert
testimony, and suggest ways in which legal standards or procedures
might be modified in light of psychological research.
This groundbreaking book should be on the shelf of every social
scientist interested in the legal system and every trial attorney
who is likely to retain a psychologist as an expert witness. It can
also serve as a text for advanced courses in psychology, legal
studies, criminal justice, law, and sociology.
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