Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Responsibility; 3 Criminal Responsibility; 4 Finders of Fact; 5 Laymen and the Law; 6 The Criminal Process and Personality; 7 Laymen and Science; 8 The Impact of Psychology on Law; Index.
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Courts are constantly required to know how people think. This book questions whether the "arm-chair psychology" operated by fact-finders, and indeed the law itself, in its treatment of the fact-finders, bears any resemblance to the knowledge derived from psychological research.