9781591474166-1591474167-Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)

Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)

ISBN-13: 9781591474166
ISBN-10: 1591474167
Edition: 1
Author: W. Gerrod Parrott, Norman J Finkel
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Format: Hardcover 312 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781591474166
ISBN-10: 1591474167
Edition: 1
Author: W. Gerrod Parrott, Norman J Finkel
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Format: Hardcover 312 pages

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Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences) (ISBN-13: 9781591474166 and ISBN-10: 1591474167), written by authors W. Gerrod Parrott, Norman J Finkel, was published by American Psychological Association (APA) in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Emotions (Mental Health, Forensic Psychology, Psychology & Counseling, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Rules & Procedures, Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Forensic Psychology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Emotions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The authors argue persuasively that U.S. law is out of touch with the way that jurors? ?commonsense justice? works and the way they judge culpability. This disconnect has resulted in some inconsistent verdicts across different types of cases and thus has serious implications for whether the law will be respected and obeyed. Problems arise because criminal law has no unified theory of emotion and culpability, and legal scholars often seem to misunderstand or ignore what psychologists know about emotion. The authors skillfully show that the law's culpability theories are (and must be) psychological at heart, and they propose ways in which psychology can help inform and support the law.

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