Juvenile sex offenders were compared to other juvenile offenders in the degree of violence
against women they witnessed in their families of origin. Poor impulse control, a callous and …

Reviews the book Testifying in Court: Guidelines and Maxims for the Expert Witness, 2nd ed.,
by SL Brodsky. This book is intended as a practical guide for expert witnesses, particularly …

The judge or jury makes a subjective determination of when an expert is credible. However,
no published measure exists for assessment of the credibility of expert witnesses. The …

A qualitative study with 20 board-certified forensic psychologists was followed up by a mail
survey of 351 forensic psychologists in this mixed-methods investigation of examiner bias …

Psychologists are becoming increasingly involved in forensic assessments of emotional
injuries. To determine which psychodiagnostic instruments are in use in emotional injury …

The term meta is usually used to refer to some higher level consideration of the nature of any
subject matter. Meta-analysis refers to the analysis of analyses. Metajokes are jokes about …

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between both expert witness
confidence and juror personality with expert witness credibility, as well as expert witness …

Little empirical research has addressed the effects of psychological or psychosocial evidence
on sentencing decisions. The present study found that death‐qualified mock jurors were …

Self-Efficacy Theory (SET; Bandura, 1986, 2000) has generated research and practice
ramifications across areas of psychology. However, self-efficacy has yet to be assessed in a legal …

This study sought to investigate the relation between expert witness likeability and juror
judgments of credibility and sentencing. Two actors playing expert witnesses were trained to …