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  • Finding the Truth in the Courtroom: Dealing with Deception, Lies, and Memories

    Finding the Truth in the Courtroom by Otgaar, Henry; Howe, Mark L.;

    Dealing with Deception, Lies, and Memories

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 16 November 2017

    • ISBN 9780190612016
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages296 pages
    • Size 239x155x20 mm
    • Weight 567 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Finding the Truth in the Courtroom combines the science behind deception and memory and their relation in court. Testimonies are oftentimes the most important piece of evidence in legal cases. Hence, this book shows how such testimonies can be riddled with deception and/or memory errors, how to detect them, and what you can against them.

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    Long description:

    In many criminal trials, forensic technical evidence is lacking and triers of fact must rely on the reliability of eyewitness statements, identifications, and testimony; however, such reports can be riddled with deceptive statements or erroneous recollections. Based on such considerations, the question arises as to how one should weigh such eyewitness accounts given the theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field. Finding the Truth in the Courtroom focuses on how legal professionals, legal/forensic psychologists, and memory researchers can decide when statements or identifications are based on truthful or fabricated experiences and whether one can distinguish between lies, deception, and false memories.

    The contributors, key experts in the field, assemble recent experimental work and case studies in which deception or false memory plays a dominant role. Topics discussed relate to the susceptibility to suggestive pressure (e.g., "Under which circumstances are children or adults the most vulnerable to suggestion?"), the fabrication of symptoms (e.g., "How to detect whether PTSD symptoms are malingered?"), and the detection of deceit (e.g., "Which paradigms are promising in deception detection?"), among others. By using this approach, this volume unites diverse streams of research (i.e., deception, malingering, false memory) that are involved in the reliability of eyewitness statements.

    This book contains chapters by leading international experts on crucial topics in applying psychology to legal cases that hinge on psychological issues. Witnesses who are lying, reporting false information from memory, or feigning illness or forgetfulness can all compromise the search for truth in a case. The authors discuss the latest research on these topics and others. Lawyers and judges, as well as forensic psychologists, will find this book of great interest.

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    Table of Contents:

    About the Editors
    Contributors
    Chapter 1: Deception and Memory in the Courtroom: An Overview
    Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe
    Part I: Memory in the Courtroom
    Chapter 2: Misinformation in the Courtroom
    Shari R. Berkowitz and Elizabeth F. Loftus
    Chapter 3: Suggestibility in the Courtroom: How Memory Can Be Distorted During the Investigative and Legal Process
    Fiona Gabbert and Lorraine Hope
    Chapter 4: When Spontaneous Statements Should Not Be Trusted: False Memories in Children and Adults
    Henry Otgaar and Mark L. Howe
    Chapter 5: A Neurobiological Account False Memories
    Vincent van de Ven, Henry Otgaar, and Mark L. Howe
    Part II: Children in the Courtroom
    Chapter 6: Assessing the Veracity of Children's Forensic Interviews: Implications for the Courtroom
    Hayden M. Henderson and Samantha J. Andrews
    Chapter 7: Putting Children's Memory and Suggestibility in their Place: An Analysis Considering Person, Topic, and Context
    Deborah Goldfarb, Gail S. Goodman, Rakel P. Larson, Alejandra Gonzalez, and Mitchell L. Eisen
    Part III: Deception in the Courtroom
    Chapter 8: Nonverbal Detection of Deception
    Aldert Vrij
    Chapter 9: Building a Case: The Role of Empirically Based Interviewing Techniques in Case Construction
    Timothy J. Luke, Maria Hartwig, Laure Brimbal, and Pär Anders Granhag
    Chapter 10: Deception Detection Using Psychophysiological and Neural Measures
    Ewout H. Meijer and Bruno Verschuere
    Part IV: Malingering in the Courtroom
    Chapter 11: Seven Myths About Feigning
    Marko Jelicic, Harald Merckelbach, and Irena Boskovi
    Chapter 12: False Symptom Claims and Symptom Validity Assessment
    Thomas Merten
    Index

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