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Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself

Emotions and Culpability: How the Law Is at Odds with Psychology, Jurors, and Itself

Parrott, W. Gerrod
Finkel, Norman J.

Hardcover

Series: Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences

CognitionGeneral LawGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1591474167
ISBN13: 9781591474166
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: Jun 15 2006
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.78
Height: 0.94 Width: 7.28 Depth: 10.30
Language: English
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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