Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-458) and index
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Introduction -- Psychology and the courts: An overview -- The investigative process: Detection of deception, interrogations, false confessions, and the polygraph -- Competencies and criminal responsibility -- Eyewitness evidence -- The trial jury -- Jury and judicial decision making -- Controversial evidence in the courtroom: profiling, psychological autopsies, and hypnosis -- Psychology and the family court -- Involuntary civil commitment -- Psychology in civil litigation -- Psychological assessment and the law.