Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications: Experimental examination of peremptory use and the Batson challenge procedure
Chapter 2. Effects of Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity From Physical and Witness Evidence on Mock Jurors' Decision Making
Chapter 3. The Effects of British and American Trial Procedures on the Quality of Juror Decision-Making
Chapter 4. How Jurors Use and Misuse Character Evidence
Chapter 5. Younger and Older Jurors: The influence of environmental supports on memory performance and decision making in complex trials
Chapter 6. The Effects of Attorney Presentation Style, Attorney Gender and Juror Gender on Juror Decisions
Chapter 7. Big Girls Don't Cry: The effect of child witness demeanor on juror decisions in a child sexual abuse trial
Chapter 8. Speech Style and Impression Formation in a Court Setting: The effects of powerful and powerless speech
Chapter 9. Asked and Answered: Questioning Children in the Courtroom
Chapter 10. Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk
Chapter 11. Witnesses With Intellectual Disabilities in Court: What questions are asked and what influence do they have?
Chapter 12. Judges' and Psychologists' Assessments of Legal and Clinical Factors in Competence for Execution
Chapter 13. A Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations
Chapter 14. Issues and Considerations Regarding the Use of Assessment Instruments in the Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial
Chapter 15. The Expert Witness, the Adversary System, and the Voice of Reason: Reconciling impartiality and advocacy
Chapter 16. The Practice of Forensic Psychology: A look toward the future in light of the past
Chapter 17. What's the Point of Sentencing?: Psychological aspects of crime and punishment