Psychology and law

Andreas Kapardis

"Now in its fourth edition, Psychology and Law is a comprehensive guide to the complex interactions between psychology and criminal law. Andreas Kapardis explores contemporary psycholegal issues both in and out of the courtroom, from eyewitness testimony, investigative interviewing, jury decision-making, and sentencing as a human process, to restorative justice, terrorism, police prejudice and offender profiling. This edition features new contributions from two leading scholars in the field. David Farrington of the University of Cambridge, a pioneer of legal psychology in the United Kingdom, shares his recollections of the discipline's formative years in Chapter 1. Ian Freckelton of the University of Melbourne draws on his experience as a barrister to inform discussion of psychologists as expert witnesses in Chapter 7. The book draws upon sources from Europe, North America and...