The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology by McEwan, Jenny

The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781901362534)

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The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology by McEwan, Jenny

The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology

$130.00
The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology by McEwan, Jenny

The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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Courts are constantly required to know how people think. They may have to decide what a specific person was thinking on a past occasion; how others would have reacted to a particular situation; or whether a witness is telling the truth. Be they judges, jurors or magistrates, the law demands they penetrate human consciousness. This book questions whether the arm-chair psychology' operated by fact-finders, and indeed the law itself, in its treatment of the fact-finders, bears any resemblance to the knowledge derived from psychological research. Comparing psychological theory with court verdicts in both civil and criminal contexts, it assesses where the separation between law and science is most acute, and most dangerous.

Author: Jenny McEwan
ISBN-10: 1901362531
ISBN-13: 9781901362534
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Jenny McEwan
By Jenny McEwan
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Jenny McEwan is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter.

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