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Research

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  • Expert testimony and juries
  • Use and interpretation of forensic science

      Sample Publications:
      Thompson, W. C. & Cole, S. A. (2007). Psychological Aspects of Forensic Identification Evidence. In M. Constanzo, D. Krauss, & K. Pezdek (Eds.), Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 31-68.

      Skeem, J., Golding, S., Cohn, N., & Berge, G. (1998). The logic and reliability of expert opinion on competence to stand trial. Law & Human Behavior, 22, 519-547.
Brain Memory, Suggestions, and the Law

Child Victim/Witnesses
  • Protecting child witnesses
  • Perceptions of child victim/witnesses
  • Children's eyewitness capability

      Sample Publications:
      Quas, J. A., Thompson, W. C., & Clarke-Stewart, K. A. (2005). Do jurors “know�? what isn’t so about child witnesses? Law and Human Behavior, 29, 425-456.

      Clarke-Stewart, K. A., Malloy, L. C., & Allhusen, V. D. (2004). Verbal ability, self-control, and close relationships with parents protect children against misleading suggestions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1037-1058.

      Quas, J. A., et al.. (2005). Suggestibility, social support, and memory for a novel experience in young children. J. Experimental Child Psychology. 91, 315-341.

Juvenile Offenders
  • Mental illness and juvenile crime
  • When juveniles should be tried as adults

      Sample Publications:
      Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L. (2000). (Im)maturity of judgment in adolescence: Why adolescents may be less culpable than adults. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 18, 741-760.

      Caldwell, M., Skeem, J., Salekin, R., & Van Ryoboek (2006). Treatment response of adolescent offenders with psychopathy features: A two-year follow-up. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 33, 571-596.

      Skeem, J., & Cauffman, E. (2003). Views of the downward extension: Comparing the Youth Version of the Psychopathy Checklist with the Youth Psychopathic Traits Iventory. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 21, 737-770.

Mental Health and Justice
  • Psychopathology and criminal justice
  • Competency to testify and stand trial
  • Sexual harassment and workplace stress
  • End of life issues

      Sample Publications:
      Maddi, S. R. (2002). The story of hardiness: Twenty years of theorizing, research, and practice. Consulting Psychology Journal, 54, 173-185.

      Grisso, T., Steinberg, L., Woolard, J., Cauffman, E., Scott, E., Graham, S., Lexcen, F., Reppucci, N., & Schwartz, R. (2003). Juveniles' competence to stand trial: A comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendants. Law and Human Behavior, 27, 333-363.

      Ditto, P. H. (2006). Self-determination, substituted judgment and the psychology of advance medical decision making. In J. L. Werth & D. Blevins (Eds.), Psychosocial issues near the end of life: A resource for professional care providers (pp. 89-109). Washington D. C.: APA Press.

      Skeem, J., Schubert, C., Odgers, C., Mulvey, E., Gardner, W., & Lidz, C. (in press). Psychiatric symptoms and community violence among high-risk patients: A test of the relationship at the weekly level. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology

      Skeem, J., & Eno Louden, J. (2006). Toward evidence-based practice for probationers and parolees mandated to mental health treatment. Psychiatric Services, 57, 333-352.

      Skeem, J., Monahan, J., & Mulvey, E. (2002). Psychopathy, treatment involvement, and subsequent violence among civil psychiatric patients. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 577-603.

Innocents Miscarriages of Justice
  • False confessions
  • Misinterpretation of evidence
  • Faulty decision making

      Sample Publications:
      Huff, C.R. and M. Killias (eds.), Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (forthcoming, 2007).

      Castelle, G. & Loftus, E.F. (2001) Misinformation and wrongful convictions. In S.D. Westervelt & J.A. Humphrey (Eds). Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on failed justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 17-35.

 
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