Beliefs and Expectancies in Legal Decision Making

ISBN-13: 9780367739904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Bradley McAuliff; Brian Bornstein

Opis

This volume examines how beliefs and expectancies influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions in legal contexts. Topics covered include alibis, children’s testimony behavior, eyewitness testimony, confessions, sexual assault victims, judges’ decisions in child protection cases, and attorneys’ beliefs about jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offen

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Beliefs and expectancies in legal decision making Bradley D. McAuliff and Brian H. Bornstein  2. Beliefs about alibis and alibi investigations: a survey of law enforcement Jennifer E. Dysart and Deryn Strange  3. Do jurors get what they expect? Traditional versus alternative forms of children’s testimony Bradley D. McAuliff and Margaret Bull Kovera  4. The effects of mock jurors’ beliefs about eyewitness performance on trial judgments Tess M.S. Neal, Ashley Christiansen, Brian H. Bornstein and Timothy R. Robicheaux  5. Minimization and maximization techniques: assessing the perceived consequences of confessing and confession diagnosticity Allyson J. Horgan, Melissa B. Russano, Christian A. Meissner and Jacqueline R. Evans  6. Perceptions of sexual assault: expectancies regarding the emotional response of a rape victim over time Marc A. Klippenstine and Regina Schuller  7. Terminating parental rights: the relation of judicial experience and expectancy-related factors to risk perceptions in child protection cases Alicia Summers, Sophia Gatowski and Shirley Dobbin  8. Attorney and lay beliefs about factors affecting jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offender culpability Catherine R. Camilletti and Matthew H. Scullin

O autorze

Bradley D. McAuliff, JD, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Northridge, USA. He is Associate Editor of the journal Law & Human Behavior.

Brian H. Bornstein, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Courtesy Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is co-editor of the journal Psychology, Crime & Law.