Download or read book How Age and Race of Defendant and Victim Influence Mock Jurors Perceptions in a Child Sexual Molestation Case written by Guadalupe Escamilla and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Child Race Child Age and Defendant Race on Mock Jurors Decision for a Child Sexual Abuse Case written by Alissa Anderson Call and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the extant literature on mock jurors' perceptions of child sexual abuse victims, little attention has been paid to the potential impact of child race on legal judgments. The present research investigated the influence of child race (Black vs. White), defendant race (Black vs. White), and child age (12 years vs. 17 years) on mock jurors' legal judgments for a hypothetical teacher-student sexual abuse case. Child race did not solely impact mock jurors' legal judgments or perceptions of the mock CSA case, but did interact with other variables to influence case outcomes and mock jurors' perceptions. Child age directly affected legal judgments and interacted with additional extralegal factors as well as mock juror gender. No significant main effects of defendant race were observed in the present study, yet this extralegal factor interacted with child race and age to impact mock jurors' defendant guilt ratings. Mock juror gender differences as well as mock jurors' racial and authoritarian attitudes, beliefs in a just world, and endorsements of raciallybased sexual stereotypes were also examined in the present study. Mock juror gender differences were found for various legal judgments related to both the defendant and child complainant. Mock jurors' endorsements of the "Jezebel" stereotype was strongly related to legal judgments for the case while mock jurors' authoritarian attitudes, racial attitudes, and beliefs in a just world were minimally associated with their legal judgments. The study's findings may be used to educate legal professionals--as well as jurors--on the impact of extralegal factors and individual biases in child sexual abuse cases.
Download or read book Forensic Psychology written by Joanna Pozzulo and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Psychology takes a broad-based perspective, incorporating both experimental and clinical topics. This text includes current developments by theorists and researchers in the field. By focusing on multidisciplinary theories, readers gain an understanding of different forensic psychology areas, showing interplay among cognitive, biological, and social factors. Readers will find that the ideas, issues, and research in this text are presented in a style that they will understand, enjoy, and find useful in their professional careers.
Download or read book The Legacy of Racism for Children written by Margaret C. Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater. The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy examines issues that arise when minority children's lives are directly or indirectly influenced by law and public policy. Uniquely comprehensive in scope, this trailblazing volume offers cutting-edge chapters on the intersections of race/ethnicity within the context of child maltreatment, child dependency court, custody and adoption, familial incarceration, school discipline and the "school-to-prison pipeline," juvenile justice, police/youth interactions, and jurors' perceptions of child and adolescent victims and defendants. The book also includes chapters focused on troubling situations that are less commonly researched, but growing in importance, including the role of race and racism in child sex trafficking and US immigration law and policy. Thus, individual chapters explore myriad ways in which law and policy shape the lives of marginalized children and adolescents - racial and ethnic minorities - who historically and presently are at heightened risk for experiencing disadvantageous consequences of law and policy. In so doing, The Legacy of Racism for Children can help social scientists to understand and work to prevent the perpetuation of racial discrimination in American laws and public policies.
Download or read book Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set written by Michael P. Toglia and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages – children, adults, and the elderly – are compiled in a single pair of volumes. The disparate research currently being conducted in eyewitness memory in psychology, criminal justice, and legal studies is coherently presented in this work. Volume 1 covers memory for events. Volume 2 cover memory for people.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memory and Sexual Misconduct written by Joanna Pozzulo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice investigates the veracity of memories of sexual misconduct and the factors that may influence accurate recall, and fundamentally assesses whether psychological science can help the criminal justice system in determining which accusations are likely to be accurate, and which are not. In recent years, the public has been inundated with announcements of sexual assault allegations, in particular against public figures like politicians, businessmen, movie moguls, and professional athletes. Many of these accusations concern events that occurred several years prior to their announcements and trials. Drawing upon a compilation of real-life sexual assault cases and psychological science on recall and sexual trauma, this book provides an analysis of memory reports of sexual misconduct, including inappropriate comments, behaviors, harassment, and assault. It compares these memories with other types of memory, such as flashbulb memories, co-witness conformity memory, and autobiographical memory. Memory and Sexual Misconduct helps readers interpret the role of emotion, the level of detail, and the possible distinction between someone remembering a past event and believing the past event occurred. By providing a thorough evaluation of the likelihood that misconduct memories are accurate and investigating factors that affect this accuracy, Memory and Sexual Misconduct is an invaluable text to both the criminal justice system and the general public, particularly as sexual misconduct allegations of past events continue to come to light.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Legal Decision Making written by Monica K. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting state-of-the-art research, this Handbook summarises emerging and establishing topics in the area of legal decision-making. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it covers decisions made within the criminal justice system, the trial process, and clinical settings. Chapters, written by accomplished academics and experts in the field, synthesize historical context, identify gaps in existing literature, propose future directions of study, and discuss policy limitations. It also includes 'perspectives from the field' essays written by professionals - a judge, an attorney, a police officer, a trial consultant, and a probation officer - to bridge the gap between academic research and its application to the real world. It is intended as a go-to resource for students and researchers who want to immerse themselves in a body of scientific research to understand its history and shape its future.
Download or read book Advances in Psychology and Law written by Brian H. Bornstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume consists of up-to-date review articles on topics relevant to psychology and law, and will be of current interest to the field. Notably, the majority of these topics are currently attracting a great deal of research and public policy attention in the U.S. and elsewhere, as evidenced by programs at the American Psychology-Law Society and related conferences. Topics for the present volume include: attitudes toward the police (Cole et al.), alibis (Charman et al.), hate crimes based on gender and sexual orientation (Plumm & Leighton), the role of gender at trial (Livingston et al.), neuroimages in court (Glen), intimate partner violence (Mauer & Reppucci), post-identification feedback (Douglass & Smalarz) and individual differences in eyewitness identification (Snowden & Bornstein), veterans’ wellbeing (Berthelot & Prager), and plea bargaining (Levett).
Download or read book Effects of Victim Race Defendant Race and Juror Prejudice on Perceptions and Decisions in Child Sexual Assault Cases written by Suzanne L. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jurors Perceptions of Child Victim witnesses in a Real world Sexual Abuse Trial Setting written by Casey William Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mock Juror Perceptions of a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case written by Shannon L. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Kids Don t Cry but what Happens when They Do written by Alexia Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a considerable amount of research has examined the perceived credibility of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA), very little has focused on the effects of children's emotional displays on perceptions of their credibility. The current study sought to address this gap, with three specific aims. First, the research examined the impact of children's emotional displays on jurors' judgments of witness credibility and case outcomes in CSA cases. Second, using expectation violation theory (EVT) as a framework, the research investigated whether children's age and gender interact with demeanor to influence jurors' decisions. Third, the research examined the influence of participant type, comparing the decisions of undergraduate students to those of actual jurors. A total of 603 jurors just released from jury duty and jury-eligible undergraduates read a short summary of a CSA case along with the child's accompanying testimony. The transcripts varied the child's age and gender. While reading the testimony, participants viewed pencil drawings depicting the child's emotional demeanor on the witness stand. The drawings varied the child's age, gender, and emotion (either calm or crying). Participants then rendered a verdict in the case, evaluated the guilt of the defendant, and rated the credibility of the child witness and the defendant. Initial results revealed that the child's displayed demeanor (i.e., the drawing) had no direct effect on participants' judgments. However, fine-grained analyses indicated that participants were influenced by their subjective interpretations of the child's demeanor. Consistent with EVT, participants who perceived the child witness as emotional provided more guilty verdicts, were more certain of the defendant's guilt, found the child more credible, and regarded the defendant as less credible. Also, both older and younger children were rated as more credible when perceived as emotional rather than unemotional, with this effect being stronger for older children. The child's gender had no influence on participants' judgments directly or in conjunction with the child's age or perceived emotional demeanor. Finally, undergraduates were more likely to find the defendant guilty and were more certain of the defendant's guilt than were jurors. Overall, findings have important implications for understanding the impact of children's emotional displays on jurors' decisions in CSA cases and for the need to educate jurors regarding the validity of their perceptions.
Download or read book Handbook of Psychology Forensic Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Download or read book Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology written by Michael P. Toglia and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages-children, adults, and the elderly-are compiled in a single pair of volumes. The disparate research currently being conducted in eyewitness memory in psychology, criminal justice, and legal studies is coherently presented in this work. Controversial topics such as the use of hypnosis, false and recovered memories, the impact of stress, and the accuracy of psychologically impaired witnesses are expertly examined. Leading eyewitness researchers also discuss the subjects of conversational memory, alibi evidence, witness credibility, facial memory, earwitness testimony, lineup theory, and expert testimony. The impact of witness testimony in court is considered, and each volume concludes with a legal commentary chapter. The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology is an invaluable aid to researchers, legal scholars, and practicing lawyers who need access to the most recent research in the field, accompanied by the interpretations and commentary of many of the world's leading authorities on these topics.
Download or read book Legal Cases New Religious Movements and Minority Faiths written by James T. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases to examine social control efforts. The legal cases involve group leaders, a groups’ practices or alleged abuses against members and children in the group, legal actions brought by former members or third parties, attacks against such groups by outsiders including even governments, and libel and slander actions brought by religious groups as they seek to defend themselves. These cases are sometimes milestones in the relation between state authorities and religious groups. Exploring cases in different parts of the world, and assessing the events causing such cases and their consequences, this book offers a practical insight for understanding the relations of NRMs and other minority religions and the law from the perspective of legal cases. Chapters focus on legal, political, and social implications. Including contributions from scholars, legal practitioners, actual or former members, and authorities involved in such cases from various jurisdictions, this book presents an objective approach to understanding why so many legal actions have involved NRMs and other minority faiths in recent years in western societies, and the consequences of those actions for the society and the religious group as well.
Download or read book The Effects of Juror Age Gender and the Interacting Effects of Age and Gender on Jurors Perceptions of Witness Credibility Defendant Guilt and Confidence of Guilt in Mock and in Actual Child Sexual Assault CSA Trials written by Kathlyn Vo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limitations and clinical implications were discussed as well as ideas for future research to examine based on the current results were also mentioned toward the end.
