Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication
"This book reveals the human and social costs of sexual assault prosecution when courts rely on forensic science and medico-legal technologies that reproduce rape myths, inequality, and racial injustice under the guise of scientific authority"--
Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication
"This book reveals the human and social costs of sexual assault prosecution when courts rely on forensic science and medico-legal technologies that reproduce rape myths, inequality, and racial injustice under the guise of scientific authority"--
This book offers science-based recommendations for expert witness practice. There is significant literature on the effects of expert testimony on judge and juror decisions, yet there has been no systematic attempt to formulate strategies from this evidence that experts could adopt to increase the effectiveness of their testimony. Around 86 ......
Improving Psychological Science and Legal Practice
This comprehensive text describes the science and practice of child forensic interviewing, with an emphasis on child abuse cases. For the forensic interviewer, eliciting descriptions of childhood assaults, at any age, is no easy task. Over the last several decades, research on children and the law has greatly expanded, especially on the topics ......
Explores the diverse applications of narrative in law beyond the courtroom, from client-lawyer interactions to legal decisions Once regarded by law professors as serving an ornamental purpose in legal argumentation, narrative has gained an increasingly prominent role in legal scholarship. Yet while scholars have examined the many functions and ......
Explores the diverse applications of narrative in law beyond the courtroom, from client-lawyer interactions to legal decisions Once regarded by law professors as serving an ornamental purpose in legal argumentation, narrative has gained an increasingly prominent role in legal scholarship. Yet while scholars have examined the many functions and ......
Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in democratic decision-making increasingly being dismissed. In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg ......
A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides guidelines for participating effectively and ......
BarCharts, Inc was founded on our law guides created by the owner. They were designed to understand the significant details within the larger scheme of the law, as a daily refresher, and to review before the Bar Exam. Twenty five years later we keep those guides up to date for students of law and criminal justice, paralegals, and practicing ......