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Psychology and criminal justice

Title
Psychology and criminal justice / Katherine W. Ellison and Robert Buckhout.
Author
Ellison, Katherine W.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, ©1981.

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Additional Authors
Buckhout, Robert, 1935-
Description
xvi, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > Psychological aspects
  • Forensic psychology
  • Criminal psychology
  • Law > Psychological aspects
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Law > Psychological aspects
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > Psychological aspects
  • Criminal psychology
  • Forensic psychology
  • Gerichtliche Psychologie
  • United States
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 399-420.
Contents
Introduction and overview -- Introduction to the criminal justice system -- Victim as evidence, victim as culprit, victim as person -- Psychology and the police -- Psychology and eyewitness identification -- Studying the jury as a social system -- The U.S. Supreme Court v. social science: the jury -- Case studies in scientific jury selection: an inside view -- The social scientist as expert adviser in the legal setting -- Psychological testing and the law -- Social science and the prison system -- On capital punishment -- Social science research methods applied to the law: a guide for the producer and the consumer -- Law and social sciences resource file.
ISBN
  • 0060410248
  • 9780060410247
LCCN
80027205
OCLC
  • ocm06981974
  • 6981974
  • SCSB-8920793
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library