Judicial Decision Making: Is Psychology Relevant? by Lawrence S. Wrightsman PDF

By Lawrence S. Wrightsman

ISBN-10: 1461371783

ISBN-13: 9781461371786

within the mid-1970s, as a social psychologist devoted to the applying of knowl side, I welcomed our field's rising curiosity within the felony method. i've got al methods been serious about jury trials-something in regards to the concept that con ceptions of the reality have been in irrevocable clash and jurors might decide upon just one of them. extra very important, the felony justice approach is an important social strength that has been missed by means of social psychologists for many of the 20 th century. As I systematically started to discover the functions of social psycho logical innovations to the legislation twenty years in the past, I skilled the pride of discovery just like that of a kid lower than a Christmas tree. it's been pleasing to be one of the cohort of researchers who've studied the felony procedure, in particular trial juries, from a mental standpoint. i feel now we have discovered a lot that might be precious if the procedure have been to be revised. Hlf the method have been to be revised" . . . there is the rub. As i've got said, my unique motivation was once the applying of data. Like different social scien tists, I believed-perhaps arrogantly-that the result of our examine efforts should be used to make trial juries function with extra potency, accuracy, and pride. Qver the final twenty years, a lot wisdom has amassed. How do we placed this information to paintings? Judges are the gatekeepers of the felony system.

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