Lecture One Flashcards
1
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Psychology and law in Everyday
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- “Womb to Tomb”
- As soon as we’re born we have legal papers, etc
2
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Law
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- Perspective
- Tells you what you should do - Certainty
- Clear rulings are rendered - Adversarial methods
- Are used to get at the “truth” - Hierarchical
- Lower courts are bound by higher courts
3
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Psychology
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- Descriptive
- Tells you what you should actually do - Probability
- Conclusions are based on statistical probability - Experimental methods
- Are used to get at the truth - Empirical
- Ideas depend on supporting data, never bound by prior studies
4
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Three ways Psychology and Law interact
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- Psychology in law
- Psychology and the law
- Psychology of the law
5
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James Cattell
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- Asked students to recall the weather one week prior, poor recall
6
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Alfred Binet
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Studied questioning with kids, free recall most accurate
7
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William Stern
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Studied the role of emotional arousal on eyewitness, gun/physiological stress
8
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Julian Varendonck
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Showed the frailties of children’s memory
9
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Hugo Munsterberg
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Urged lawyers to consider eyewitness reliability (bad rep in lawyer community)
10
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Factual innocence
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The accused didn’t in fact commit the crime
11
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Legal innocence
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The accused committed the crime but did not have a proper legal defence
12
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Most Exonerations
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- Severe violent offence
- Lengthy sentence (25 years) average sentence in Canada is 6 months
- Contested trial
13
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“Normal” Criminal Cases
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- Non-violent offences
- Most non-custodial, less than 6 months in jail
- Guilty plea
14
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Primary Effects of Wrongful Convictions
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- Loss of liberty
- Physical and sexual assault in prison
- Institutionalization
-Legal consequences
15
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Secondary Effects of Wrongful convictions
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- Impact on families
- Impact on victims
- Impact on public
