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The Class Project is a semester-long project designed to engage you in the criminal justice process so that you can effectively apply course principles to the real world situations they relate to. The project is comprised of a mock crime and a mock trial, with all of the necessary preparations in between. 

Each student will choose a role to play and will participate in the criminal justice and legal systems as that role.

Each role is listed with a particular group. You will meet with your groups occasionally outside of class.

Law Enforcement Group:

• Police Officers

• Detectives

• Crime Scene Investigators

• Sketch Artist

• Profiler

• (Bail Bonds)

The Courts Group:

• Bailiff

• Judge

The Jury Group:

• (Jury Commissioner)

• Jurors

The Attorneys Group (each side will typically meet together, with their witnesses):

• Defense Attorneys

• Prosecuting Attorneys

• Expert Witnesses

• Character Witnesses

• Eyewitnesses

The Media Group:

• Camera Person

• TV Correspondent

• Newspaper Reporter

• Newspaper Photographer

Here are some articles about the case. I've specifically chosen ones that do not discuss the trial itself or outcome (you can look that up later!). For this assignment, read the information and then make some decisions about how you will develop the case.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/30/national/main658296.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Vang (only if you have enough self control not to read the trial and verdict sections!)

http://graphics2.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/nov04/statement112304edits01.pdf

•Decide who you are: prosecution or defense

•What investigatory steps will you take next?

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #14 - Your Experience

You may choose to document your own personal experience with crime or the legal system for this project.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Dexter-Design-Novel-Jeff-Lindsay/dp/0385518366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267130550&sr=8-1

 

I recently just finished the latest of Jeff Lindsey's books about everyone's favorite serial killer; Dexter by Design. This book is the fourth in the Dexter Series, of which the Showtime Show Dexter is loosely based off of. Most people are aware of the show but few people are aware of the fact that the show actually started off as a book series by crime writer Jeff Lindsey. In the fourth installment of the series, the character Dexter faces a very unique kind of criminal: a performance artist murderer. Someone is leaving a trail of very decorative bodies scattered around Miami and it is up to Dexter and his sister Deborah to find out who exactly would want to hallow out a human stomach and fill it with a tropical fruit basket for all of Miami to see. But things are not what they seem. I really enjoyed this book because it put a lot of twists on what exactly motivates one to kill. Without giving away too much of the book, the main suspects intentions seemed to be motivated by art as the killer tries to capture human emotion and anguish in a permanent canvas. I am very excited to read Lindsey's next novel (due to come out sometime this year). Rumor has it that Dexter will meet a cannibal in this fifth novel and I eagerly wait to see how Lindsey will incorporate this into the series. For those who follow the show, the Dexter books do NOT follow along with the show. They are very similar but they contain very different plotlines and character twists. I highly recommend reading this series if anyone is interested in this type of literature. Though a lot of what takes place in these types of stories can be sort of laughed at by what we learn in class, they are very interesting and highly entertaining books which give sort of a different spin on what we learn about in class. I highly recommend looking into them if you love to read a good mystery book.

 

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2AZSl8/www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc20.html

Above is the link to an incredibly large listing of common vocabulary terms used in the forensic sciences. I've found it useful when reading journal articles, or adding in relevant terms ot a blog posting, etc. 

            For example, criminals get more and more upset and emotionally frustrated when thinking about jail-time, in particular a longer jail sentence.  This is known as inmate reactance, which is the increased negativity experienced when an inmate has his personal freedom threatened.   Serial killers often have call signs, or specific rituals, or behaviors that they emit at each crime scene indicating that they are the ones responsible.  This is often highlighted in movies about serial killers like Seven, Silence of the Lambs, etc.  We could say that each of these serial killers has a unique personation which indicates they are responsible; personation is the term for these ritualistic behaviors such as "body positioning (of the victim), mutilation, or other symbolic gestures."

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~mlyount/MySites/ForensicPsychology/Vocab.html

This is another site which has vocabulary more specific to forensic psychology.  This website has longer descriptions for each word which can be helpful.  Although many of the words are basic psychology terms that don't always have a direct relevance to forensics.

            Some more highlights include:

Ecomania-       pathological attitude directed towards one's family

Familicide-      when an individual kills his/her spouse and one or more children

Frottage-         sexual gratification achieved by rubbing against the clothing of a member of the                            opposite sex in a crowd.

Learn something new every day, I thought that last one was known as "creepy."

 

As many of us come into our choice of major such as Psychology, Family Services, Social Work etc. we will be forced to come across disturbing subjects like Sexual Child Abuse. It takes a special person and state of mind to work with these children and really understand what they go through psychologically and physically.

This is an article in great detail about the psychological effects on Children who are sexually abused. It takes you though their minds and what children who have been abused tend to think and act. This article will briefly expand on the long term effects of sexual abuse and take you through two Syndromes associated with sexual child abuse: The Stockholm Syndrome & The Child Abuse Accommodation Syndrome.

These children also go through depression and the emotions tied with depression. They have fear, anger, hopelessness, betrayal, sadness, and every other emotion. A person working with these children really has to understand what those emotions feel like to the child. This article better helps explain these emotions.

It also has a section on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. This is a memory or fear that springs up at any given time due to a traumatic event that has happened in your life. It is something most children live with once they are the victim of sexual abuse.

I hope this easy read article helps some of you going into a career that handles cases like this.

http://www.secasa.com.au/index.php/family/11/54 

 

You are required to write a book report for this course. The book report is worth 100 points.  The report should be 2000 words long, typed, and in APA style (1 inch margins, double spaced, citations where appropriate, cover page, reference page).  You will be submitting your book report to www.turnitin.com where I will verify that your work has not been plagiarized. You will also turn in an identical hard copy to me on the day that it is due.

Here are some guidelines for your book report.

Buy your book early. Don't wait to find out that it will take 10 days to get to you through the mail.

Read your book.

Your next step will be to organize what you are going to say about it in your report. Writing the basic elements down in an outline format can help you to organize your thoughts. Your report should focus on the psychological factors related to the legal system. Don't just try to write this off the top of your head, but rather, from your focused effort in applying the principles from your readings and lecture to the book you read. You should only very briefly summarize your book (e.g., less than one page). The remainder of your paper should be focused on the relevant psychological factors inherent in the story or content of your chosen book. Questions? See me.

The Final Paper

1. Spell check your paper.

2. Have a friend read and review your paper.

3. Read your paper out loud.

4. Make any changes that your friend and you have pointed out.

5. Spell check again.

Grading:

10pts for APA style cover page

10pts for APA style reference page

10pts for APA style throughout the paper

10pts for appropriate length of paper

25pts for accurate and effective presentation of psychological principles/concepts

25pts for writing style

10pts for spelling/grammar

 

A portfolio documents work products and the effort engaged in doing that work.

A portfolio can take many forms (hard copy or digital). A hard copy portfolio will be in a binder with a table of contents and tabs. A digital portfolio is a website or blog.

A portfolio should impress and persuade.

A portfolio should showcase your skills and knowledge.

A portfolio can show growth and development (in other words it makes sense, and is okay, if work done later in the semester is 'better' than work done earlier in the semester). However, in our class where you get to choose what goes into your portfolio, it of course makes sense to choose your best work.

A portfolio is purposeful and organized.

You must include in your portfolio the required elements: 15 blog comments, 15 blog posts, your book report, and 13 projects.  You may also want to include a section that has other blog posts and comments that you did (beyond the 15 required, each). You may include *anything* that you believe displays your effort, skills, and knowledge in the course.

 

What did you find most interesting or surprising about tuesday's discussion? What did you learn that you did not know before? Which of the roles that we covered that day (police, detective, sergeant, csi techs, etc) would you be most interested in? Why?

Next, assume that you are the detective. What are your first steps in the investigation? What questions do you initially have? How will you go about answering them? 

     I wanted to post the Iowa sex offender registry site because I think it is something that everyone should 1. Know about and 2. Take a look at.  I found it amazing how many offenders there were in the CF area, and was even more when in my small town there was 1 let alone multiple offenders.  In Iowa On or after July 1, 1995, an individual who has been convicted or adjudicated of a criminal offense against a minor, sexual exploitation, or a sexually violent crime or who was on probation, parole, or work release status, or who was incarcerated on or after July 1, 1995 is required to register. 
      The goal of this site is to provide public safety, deterrence, and is an investigative tool for law enforcement.  There is a ton of informative information on this site so check it out!

http://www.iowasexoffender.com/

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #13 Crime Scene Workshop

This project is a little different. I'm organizing a crime scene workshop for students in 9th-12th grade on April 6th, from 10:30-11:15am. Students will come in and rotate through their choice of 2 or 3 stations where they will learn a particular technique, and then rotate through an area which will be a mock crime scene. Your mission (should you choose to accept it) will be to develop and staff one of the stations. I have equipment and materials to help you out. Up to 3 students (psylaw students) could develop and work each station.

You can choose from the following stations: forensic memory collection (interviewing and composites), forensic photography, forensic entomology, forensic science (blood, fiber, fingerprint), and the crime scene itself.

For this project, given it's specific date and time and need for advance planning, I'll need to know ahead of time if you are interested. So post as a comment here if you want to do this as one of your projects and which station you are interested in.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #12 - Case Analysis

Search and find a case using WestLaw or Nexus/Lexus on a topic of interest to you and related to psychology and law. For your comment, tell us what case you chose and why, and a short summary. For your portfolio, include a detailed analysis of the case, including what psychological or psy/law principles are operating in that case.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #11 -Choose a Person

Choose a person/role in the legal system. Construct a comprehensive review of that person's role in the legal system. Who are they? Characteristics? Circumstances? Education/training required? Anything and everything you would need to know to 'be' this person! Your comment can just briefly tell us which person you are choosing and why, and your portfolio will have all of the rest.

Some people to choose from:

Bailiff

CSI Technician

Detectives

Expert Witnesses

Forensic Technician

Inmates

Investigators

Judges

Jurors

Jury Commissioners

Juvenile Offenders

Juvenile Counseling Officers

Lieutenant

Parole Officer

Perpetrators

Police Officers

Private Defense Attorneys

Private Detectives

Probation Officer

Profilers

Prosecutors

Public Defenders

Sergeants

Suspects

Victims

Witnesses

 

 

 

 

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #10 - Article Summary

For this project, read an academic journal article (either from a psychology or a law journal). Use PsychInfo, PsycArticles, WestLaw, or Nexus/Lexus to find articles. Make sure the article relates in some way to course material.

Your comment should briefly summarize what your article was about and what you found interesting about it. For your portfolio, you should provide the article and a formal summary and analysis of the article where you discuss the main point of the article, hypotheses (if appropriate), methods (if an experiment/study), outcomes/results, and overall conclusions.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #9 - Courthouse Visit

Go to a courthouse and view a court proceeding or portion of jury selection or jury trial. For your comment tell us about where you went and what you saw (briefly). For your portfolio, provide more detailed information and a written analysis.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #8 - Construct a Lineup

Construct a lineup using federal guidelines and conduct a mock witness evaluation (information about both is available on the blog). Comment about your experience. Include all documentation, analyses, etc, in your portfolio.

Read about lineup fairness here: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/consult04A.html

Read about evaluating lineups here: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/consult05B.html

Go here for photos: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/AppCommon/

Choose a guy (search on some characteristics, or a name).

Then find fillers to match

Copy and paste into a word document

Print.

Show to friends (at least 10), collect data

Calculate lineup bias: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/documents/bias-calc.xls

 

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #7 - Wrongfull Convicted

Choose one of the people who has been wrongfully convicted (there are many posted on this blog) and learn all you can about this person. Go beyond the profile that you read at one of the innocence websites. Find news articles about their case, case law, anything and everything. Be sure to learn about what issues were at the heart of their conviction, and what issues were at the heart of their release. Your comment will give us a quick summary of who you chose, why, and what the main issues are. For your portfolio, include everything you find about this person and your analyses of the issues and your experience researching the person.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #6 - Amicus Brief Analysis

Choose an Amicus Brief related in some way to psychology. Read the brief, find newspaper accounts about the case (if available), find case law, and other sources related to the topic (these might be journal articles on the psychological issue in general, websites, or blogs), and write an analysis of the legal and psychological issues. Remember, your comment here, is about what your topic is and your experience researching it. What goes in your portfolio are all the above products and your analysis.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #5 - Interview a Professional

Choose a relevant profession or role in the legal system, law enforcement, or Psychology/Law related profession. Find a person who is willing to talk to you about their job. This person can be local, from your hometown or anywhere that your internet connection takes you. Please do not just rely on email; it is preferable that you speak to them over the phone or in person. This should be a conversation, not a Q&A. Then, construct a Day in the Life essay. If you have never seen one of these before, google it, and you'll find many. Your comment will be about how you found the person, who they are and your experiencing talking with them. You will put your essay (which will also include that information) in your portfolio.

Here are some websites that offer products suitable for classroom demonstrations and mock crime projects.

http://www.crimescene.com/store/index.php

http://www.chiefsupply.com/Law_Enforcement

http://sciencekit.com/general-forensics/c/1722/start/27/

 

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #4 OnLine Autopsy

There is an online autopsy post available on the blog with a couple of options, and probably others elsewhere on the internet. Do one of these autopsies.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #3 LegalVote

This website provides case details and asks you to act as jurors and render a verdict. It was designed to allow attorneys to test their theories prior to trial to see how potential jurors might react. It appears to be defunct, but there is one case still there: 

http://www.legalvote.com/worth/worth11139.phtml 

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Watch one of these movies: http://www.psychologicalscience.com/psylaw/teaching-resources/movies/. Your comment can be just your general impressions and opinion of the movie. For your portfolio you should link relevant course material to the movie. Incorporate information, concepts, and explanation from readings and lecture and relate them tot he movie. In partuclar, explain how psychology and law specifically relates to the story, viewpoints, setting, and/or characters' behavior. Beware that not all legal or psychological content in a movie is accurate content! Be a critical and informed consumer of the information.

By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).

Project #1 - Create a Composite

Check out Faces software from me. This is the software used by law enforcement to make composite drawings of suspects. Install the software onto your computer. Review the guidelines for interviewing witnesses (Eyewitness Guide-available on the blog). Ask a friend to act as a witness. Ask them to formulate in their mind a picture of someone they know (it would be good if they had a photograph they could later show you). Interview this 'witness' and make a composite drawing of their 'suspect.'

So how should you go about finding information to post on the blog? Well first, think about where you get your information about the world, and what kind of information you typically seek out. Are you a political junky? Do you prefer entertainment news? Do you read mostly websites? Listen to talk radio? Read magazines or newspapers? Do you watch television news programs? Or do you prefer cable tv programming? Whatever the source, even if it is a hard copy newspaper or a network television show, they will almost always have an internet component to refer to. So the next time you hear, read, or see something that you think relates to the class, find that information on the internet and post it!

Now the above strategy is a great one if you already are tapped into some news sources, but you may not hear, read or see something related to the course as often as you would like or need. So then you have to seek out some information. You can seek out information in one of three ways:

1) Increase your exposure to information about the world by starting to read, listen, or watch more and different programming/sources than you currently do.

2) Google. (www.google.com)  Learn to google effectively, and using the variety of options to make your searches better (good key words, using the image, news, or google scholar tabs).

3) Stumble Upon. (www.stumbleupon.com) Stumble is a website where you designate your interests, and when you click on the stumble button, it will pull up a website related to those interests that it thinks you'll like. If you do, click thumbs up, if it's not quite right, click thumbs down. It will become better at finding sites the more you use it.

Have a favorite source of information you want to share with others? Post it here as a comment.

Happy surfing, and posting!

You can look up titles at www.imdb.com to find out information about the movie.

10 Rillington Place

12 Angry Men

88 Seconds

A Civil Action

A Cry in the Dark

A Dry White Season

A Few Good Men

A Free Soul

A Man for All Seasons

A Map of the World

A Night of Adventure

A Passage to India

A Place in the Sun

A Time to Kill

Adam's Rib

Amistad

An Act of Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

And Justice for All

Bananas

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Big Daddy

Billy Budd

Bone Collector

Bonfire of the Vanities

Boomerang!

Breaker Morant

Brilliant Lies

Carrington V. C.

Chicago

Class Action

Compulsion

Copycat

Coquette

Count the Hours

Criminal Court

Criminal Lawyer

Dancer in the Dark

Deep End of the Ocean

Devil's Advocate

Disorder in the Court

Dreamboat

Eight o'Clock Walk

Erin Brockovich

Evelyn

Evelyn Prentice

Eye Witness

Falling Down

Final Analysis

Fried Green Tomatoes

From the Hip

Fury

Ghosts of Mississippi

Going Bye-Bye!

Guilty as Sin

How to Murder Your Wife

I am Sam

I Confess

I Want to Live!

In the Name of the Father

Inherit the Wind

It Could Happen to You

Jagged Edge

JFK

Johnny Belinda

Judge Priest

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment in Berlin

King and Country

Knock on Any Door

Kramer vs Kramer

Lawyer Man

Legally Blonde

Let Him Have It

Libel

Losing Isaiah

Madame X

Man in the Middle

Man on Fire

Manhattan Melodrama

Marked Woman

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Miracle on 34^th Street

Mountain Justice

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Murder in the First

Murder!

Music Box

My Cousin Vinny

Mystic River

Night Court

Night Falls on Manhattan

No Other Woman

North Country

Nuts

On Trial

One More River

Paths of Glory

People vs. Dr. Kildare

Philadelphia

Pinky

Presumed Innocent

Primal Fear

Prisoners of the Sun

Reversal of Fortune

Rules of Engagement

Runaway Jury

Sergeant Rutledge

She Couldn't Say No

Silence of the Lambs

Sleepers

Sling Blade

Snow Falling on Cedars

Sommersby

State's Attorney

Stranger on the Third Floor

Suspect

The Accused

The Advocate

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Awful Truth

The Caine Mutiny

The Case of the Howling Dog

The Castle

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Good Mother

The Lady from Shanghai

The Letter

The Life of David Gale

The Life of Emile Zola

The Murder Man

The Onion Field

The Paradine Case

The People Against O'Hara

The People vs Larry Flynt

The Rack

The Rainmaker

The Secret Six

The Star Chamber

The Star Witness

The Talk of the Town

The Unfaithful

The Unholy Three

The Unknown Man

The Verdict

The Winslow Boy

The Wrong Man

The Young Philadelphians

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Forget

To Kill a Mockingbird

Town Without Pity

Trial

Trial and Error

Unashamed

Veer-Zaara

Vera Drake

Whose Life is it Anyway?

Witness for the Prosecution

Wives Under Suspicion

Young Mr. Lincoln

 

Here is a list of textbooks and reference books related to Psychology & Law.

Barrett & George, Race, Culture, Psychology and Law

Bartol & Bartol, Psychology and Law

Bergman & Asimow, Reel Justice

Brewer & Williams, Psychology and Law: An Empirical Perspective

Chase, Movies on Trial

Costanzo, Psychology Applied to Law

Eisen, Quas, & Goodman, Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview

Felson, Crime and Everyday Life

Friedrichs, Law in Our Lives

Garner, Black's Law Dictionary

Greene, Heilbrun, Fortune, & Nietzel, Forensic Psychology

Huss, Forensic Psychology

Kapardis, Psychology and Law: A Critical Introduction

Levine, Wallach & Levine, Psychological Problems, Social Issues, and Law

Lind & Tyler, The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice

Livingston, Crime and Criminology

Memon, Vrij, & Bull, Psychology and Law

Monahan & Walker, Social Science in Law

Ogloff, Taking Psychology and Law into the 21st Century

Roesch, Hart, & Ogloff, Psychology and Law

Roesch, Zapf, & Hart, Forensice Psychology and Law

Saferstein, Forensic Science Handbook

Schuller & Ogloff, Introduction to Psychology and Law: Canadian Perspectives

Walker & Shapiro, Introduction to Forensic Psychology

Wrightsman & Fulero, Forensic Psychology

Wrightsman, Forensic Psychology

Wrightsman, Green, Nietzel, & Fortune, Psychology and the Legal System

 

The following are books that are useful as readers or for book report assignments. Please feel free to add additional titles in the comments section.

 

Active Liberty

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0307263134/002-1523136-0036840?v=glance

Actual Innocence

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451203658/qid%3D1029343202/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1334532-6018213
 

 Anatomy of Motive

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671023934/qid=1075402638//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-2449508-7352752?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Lifetime-Criminal-Defense-Lawyers/dp/0230614337/ref=pd_sim_b_5

College Students' Guide to the Law

http://www.amazon.com/College-Students-Guide-C-L-Lindsay/dp/1589790898/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011215&sr=1-4

Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins and Enron Thieves

http://www.amazon.com/Convictions-Prosecutors-Battles-Against-Kingpins/dp/0374531773/ref=pd_sim_b_4

A Cop's Life

http://www.amazon.com/Cops-Life-Stories-Heart-Behind/dp/0312940017/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Cops: Their lives in their own words

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671685511/qid=1029957796/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-2777705-2011124?s=books&n=507846

Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

http://www.amazon.com/Courtroom-302-American-Criminal-Courthouse/dp/0679752064/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688108237/qid%3D1029959449/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-2777705-2011124

Eyewitness Testimony

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674287770/ref=pd_sim_books/103-1334532-6018213

Fraternity Gang Rape

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814779026/qid=1029343686/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

How to Argue and Win Every Time

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312144776/qid=1029959118/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618087281/qid=1136483827/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7445806-9744127?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688128165/qid=1029344012/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/103-1334532-6018213

The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761913467/qid=1029958714/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-2777705-2011124

Last Chance for Justice: The Juror's Lonely Quest

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965711501/qid=1029861502/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-1334532-6018213

Law School Confidential: The Complete Guide to the Law School Experience

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031224309X/qid=1093374289/sr=ka-2/ref=pd_ka_2/102-0916068-4077719

Letters from Law School: The Life of a Second Year Law Student

http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Law-School-Second-Year-Student/dp/0595009751/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011645&sr=1-6

Lush Life

http://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Novel-Richard-Price/dp/0312428227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261960167&sr=8-1

The Making of a Cop

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671665251/qid=1029957918/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671528904/qid=1093374407/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-0916068-4077719

Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology

http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Trial-Great-Cases-Psychology/dp/019518176X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262015118&sr=8-3

Mystic River

http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-River-Dennis-Lehane/dp/0060584750/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262010059&sr=1-1

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312141238/ref=pd_sim_books/103-1334532-6018213

No Higher Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A Prosecutor Makes His Case

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Calling-Greater-Responsibility-Prosecutor/dp/1555916627/ref=pd_sim_b_1

No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

http://www.amazon.com/NO-MATTER-HOW-LOUD-SHOUT/dp/0684811952/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011645&sr=1-1

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

http://www.amazon.com/Picking-Cotton-Memoir-Injustice-Redemption/dp/0312376537/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Police Interrogation and American Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Police-Interrogation-American-Justice-Richard/dp/0674035313/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Portraits of Guilt: The Woman who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671034863/qid=1029861062/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office

http://www.amazon.com/Prosecutors-Year-District-Attorneys-Office/dp/0525947124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011828&sr=1-1

Snitches: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Snitching-Criminal-Informants-Erosion-American/dp/0814758509/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and the Ears of the State

http://www.amazon.com/Snitch-Culture-Citizens-Turned-State/dp/0922915636/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Surviving Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Justice-Wrongfully-Convicted-Exonerated/dp/1932416234/ref=pd_sim_b_6

Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393321886/qid=1029958435/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2777705-2011124

Trance on Trial

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898623405/qid=1029958053/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2777705-2011124

True Blue: Police Stories by those Who have Lived Them

http://www.amazon.com/True-Blue-Police-Stories-Those/dp/0312995377/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262011404&sr=1-4

True Stories of False Confessions

http://www.amazon.com/True-Stories-False-Confessions-Warden/dp/0810126036/ref=pd_sim_b_3

True Witness

http://www.amazon.com/True-Witness-Science-against-Misidentification/dp/1403964300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262010226&sr=1-1

With Justice for None

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140133259/qid=1029860752/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

Witness for the Defense

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312084552/qid=1029343507/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1334532-6018213

The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and The Norfolk Four

http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Guys-Murder-Confessions-Norfolk/dp/1595584013/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Inside the Mind of BTK

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Mind-BTK-Thirty-Year-Notorious/dp/0470325151/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283258625&sr=8-2

The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The True story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice

http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dealey-Plaza-American-assassination/dp/0307382028/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314713124&sr=8-1

Orange is the New Black

http://www.amazon.com/Orange-New-Black-Womens-Prison/dp/0385523394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314713174&sr=1-1

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

http://www.amazon.com/Other-Wes-Moore-Name-Fates/dp/0385528205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314713209&sr=1-1

The following activty is from Rusty Juban's Management of Organizations class at Southeastern Lousiana University

 

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is a dramatic example of the power of peer pressure, group norms, and institutional control to change the persona of normal people into brutal barbarians and whimpering broken souls. The 24 subjects were chosen from 70 applicants as the most normal, average, and healthy; in other words, those individuals most like you and I. Five days into a scheduled two-week experiment these individuals had become completely consumed by the artificial roles created for the experiment. So brutal were the "guards" (a randomly chosen dozen of the 24) and so emotionally distraught, depressed, and distressed were the "prisoners" (the other dozen of the 24), that at the end of five days the experiment was halted.

This is one of the most famous and dramatic experiments in Psychology and it has applications to those studying the art and science of management. Of course the study results have an impact on many facets of life and have thus become the subject of segments on 60 Minutes, Phil Donahue, PBS, and is even being developed as a Hollywood movie. Students and the public are very fortunate that details and pictures from this experiment are now available on the Stanford Prison Experiment Web site.

1. Should we be frightened by what this experiment shows?
2. What are some of the symbolic actions that reinforced the "prisoners" status?
3. What was the basis of power for the guards?

 

Brief article by Sarah Palmer, M.S.

http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/publications/lia_training.html