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1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Law and everyday decision-making : rational, descriptive, and normative models -- Investigative profiling : legal developments and empirical research -- The rhetoric of racial profiling -- Racial profiling, attributions of motive, and the acceptance of social authority -- Racial profiling as a minority issue -- Affirmative Action : legal developments and empirical research -- Affirmative action and the courts : from Plessy to Brown to Grutter, and back? -- The University of Michigan cases : social scientific studies of diversity and fairness -- Social science in the courts : the view from Michigan -- Workplace discrimination : legal developments and empirical research in sexual harassment -- How can we make our research on sexual harassment more useful in legal decision-making? -- Totality of circumstances in sexual harassment decisions : a decision making model -- What can researchers tell the courts, and what can the courts tell researchers about sexual harassment? -- Hate speech and hate crimes : legal developments and empirical research -- The hate crime project and its limitations : evaluating the societal gains and risk in bias crime law enforcement -- Implications of automatic and controlled processes in stereotyping for hate crime perpetration and litigation -- Implicit bias and hate crimes : a psychological framework and critical race theory analysis -- Psychology and legal decision making : where should we go from here? |
| Summary |
Examines four controversial areas involving people's perceptions of others - racial profiling, affirmative action, workplace harassment, and hate speech/hate crime - from the perspectives of psychology, decision theory, and the law. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Sociological jurisprudence.
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Judicial process -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Reference.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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Judicial process -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00984714
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00993801
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Sociological jurisprudence. (OCoLC)fst01123856
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Law and Psychology.
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Judicial process -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Electronic books.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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| Added Author |
Wiener, Richard L.
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| In: |
Springer e-books |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Social consciousness in legal decision making. New York : Springer, ©2007 9780387462172 0387462171 (DLC) 2006938537 (OCoLC)86167052 |
| ISBN |
9780387462189 |
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038746218X |
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