Memory and Law
Published on 2. August 2012
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-19-992075-4 (ISBN)
Description
The legal system depends upon memory function in a number of critical ways, including the memories of victims, the memories of individuals who witness crimes or other critical events, the memories of investigators, lawyers, and judges engaged in the legal process, and the memories of jurors. How well memory works, how accurate it is, how it is affected by various aspects of the criminal justice system -- these are all important questions. But there are others as well: Can we tell when someone is reporting an accurate memory? Can we distinguish a true memory from a false one? Can memories be selectively enhanced, or erased? Are memories altered by emotion, by stress, by drugs? These questions and more are addressed by Memory and Law, which aims to present the current state of knowledge among cognitive and neural scientists about memory as applied to the law.
Reviews / Votes
...an excellent collection of chapters from experts in the area of memory and law. The chapters are written in a highly accessible way and provide up-todate reviews of the literature that would appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in issues surrounding memory and law. The authors make a point to offer concrete suggestions, where possible, for the application of psychological research to real-world legal contexts, and many authors provide applied examples from legal decisions and court transcripts to support empirical points. Many of the chapters also include suggestions for future research directions that have the potential to help focus the efforts of researchers to address the pressing issues in this field of study. * PsyCRITIQUES, May 2013 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
People within the legal system who would benefit from exposure to the best thinking scientists currently can bring to bear on the nature of memory and what that might mean for the law. Academics in psychology, neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
778 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-992075-4 (9780199920754)
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Memory and Law
E-Book
06/2012
1st Edition
Oxford University Press, USA
€136.39
Available for download
Persons
Lynn Nadel is Regents Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona.
Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
Content
Contributors ; Part I. General Issues about Memory ; Introduction: Memory in the Legal Context ; L. Nadel & W. Sinnott-Armstrong ; 1. Emotion's Impact on Memory ; E.A. Phelps ; Part II. Memory in Eyewitnesses ; 2. Inconsistencies between Law and the Limits of Human Cognition: The Case of Eyewitness Identification ; D. Davis & E.F. Loftus ; 3. Lineup Procedures in Eyewitness Identification ; S.D. Gronlund, C.A Goodsell & S.M. Andersen ; 4. The Curious Complexity between Confidence and Accuracy in Reports from Memory ; H.L. Roediger, III, J.H. Wixted & K.A. DeSoto ; 5. Evaluating Confidence in Our Memories: Results and Implications from Neuroimaging and Eye Movement Monitoring Studies of Metamemory ; E.F. Chua ; 6. Evidentiary independence?: How evidence collected early in an investigation influences the collection and interpretation of additional evidence ; L.E. Hasel ; Part III. Memory in Jurors ; 7. Memory and jury deliberation: The benefits and costs of collective remembering ; W. Hirst, A. Coman & C.B. Stone ; 8. Realizing the Potential of Instructions to Disregard ; L.J. Demaine ; 9.: The Memory of Jurors: Enhancing Trial Performance ; A. Sandberg, W. Sinnott-Armstrong & J. Suvalescu ; Part IV. Neuroimaging Memories ; 10. Neuroimaging of True, False, and Imaginary Memories: Findings and Implications ; D.L. Schacter, J. Chamberlain, B. Gaesser & K.D. Gerlach ; 11. Detection of concealed stored memories with psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods ; J.P. Rosenfeld, G.B. Shakhar & G. Ganis ; Part V. Legislative Issues ; 12. Criminalizing Cognitive Enhancement at the Blackjack Table ; A. Kolber ; 13. Monetizing Memory Science: Neuroscience and the Future of PTSD Litigation ; F.X. Shen ; CODA ; 14. Ten Things the Law, and Others, Should Know about Human Memory ; M.A. Conway