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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