Journal ArticleDOI
The Law Is a Good Thing (Psychology Is, Too) Human Rights in Psychological Jurisprudence*
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the feasibility and utility of psychological jurisprudence in human rights law is discussed. But the authors admit that the lack of a theory to guide the choice of topics for research is a major obstacle.Abstract:
Psycholegal studies have been hampered by the lack of a theory to guide the choice of topics for research. Both judicial decision making and psychological research would be enhanced by emphasis on subjective experience in determining the scope of fundamental rights and fostering a legal system consonant with human dignity and responsive to social reality. International human rights law is presented as an example of the feasibility and utility of psychological jurisprudence.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Human rights and correctional clinical practice
Tony Ward,Astrid Birgden +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a human rights perspective, in association with a justifying theory and set of goods, to the correctional arena, and apply the results of their discussion to the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of offenders.
Journal ArticleDOI
Assessment of coercive and noncoercive pressures to enter drug abuse treatment
Douglas B. Marlowe,Kimberly C. Kirby,Lynda M. Bonieskie,David J. Glass,Lawrence D. Dodds,Stephen D. Husband,Jerome J. Platt,David S. Festinger +7 more
TL;DR: Preliminary data derived from a standardized interview scoring procedure for detecting and characterizing coercive and noncoercive pressures to enter substance abuse treatment indicate that 'coercion' is operative in multiple psychosocial domains, and that subjects perceive legal pressures as exerting substantially less influence over their decisions to enter treatment than informal psychossocial pressures.
Journal ArticleDOI
Mandated reporting is still a policy with reason: empirical evidence and philosophical grounds.
TL;DR: It is argued that a child protection system needs a form of case identification beyond voluntary help-seeking, and drawing on evidence from several nations, that mandated reporting produces a large number of substantiated reports and to sacrifice this compromises child protection.
Book
Children's Perceptions of Violence: The Nature, Extent and Impact of their Experiences
TL;DR: In this article, a national survey was undertaken of New Zealand children aged 9 to 13 years, with a representative sample of 2,077 children from 28 randomly selected schools of various sizes, geographic areas and socio-economic neighbourhoods.
References
More filters
Book
The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
E. Allan Lind,Tom R. Tyler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two models of procedural justice are presented: Procedural Justice in Law I and Procedural justice in Law II, and the Generality of Procedural Jurisprudence.
Book
Why people obey the law
TL;DR: This paper found that people obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, which is the conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study, "People obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority".
Journal ArticleDOI
Reforms as experiments
TL;DR: Campbell as mentioned in this paper befast sich mit den Grunden dafur and versucht Wege aufzuzeigen, wie dies geandert werden konnte.
Book
Law's Empire
TL;DR: Law's Empire as mentioned in this paper provides a judicious and coherent introduction to the place of law in our lives, its given authority, its application in democracy, the prominent role of interpretation in judgement and the relations of lawmakers and lawgivers to the community on whose behalf they pronounce.
Book
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the legal system: sources of law, the Court System, and the Adjudicative Process. But their focus is on mental health professionals.