Suggestibility in Legal Contexts: Psychological Research and Forensic Implications
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- Provides a useful digest for academics and a trusted text for students of forensic and applied psychology
- A vital resource for legal practitioners who need to familiarize themselves with the subject
- Includes practical suggestions for minimizing witness suggestibility in interviews
- Features topics that focus on suggestibility at each stage - from witnessing a crime through to trial
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Anne Ridley is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University, UK, with particular interest in individual differences in witness suggestibility as well as strategies for supporting vulnerable witnesses in the legal system. In 2008 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
Fiona Gabbert is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK. She is an expert in the area of social influences on memory, and has published widely on this topic, including a chapter on тАШmemory conformityтАЩ in the current book. Another of FionaтАЩs interests is developing methods to obtain reliable evidence from eyewitnesses. She received an Academic Excellence Award for тАШOutstanding Achievements in the Area of Investigative InterviewingтАЩ in 2011.
David La Rooy is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Abertay Dundee, UK. He is also a Scottish Institute for Policing Research Lecturer and his research focuses on issues surrounding the forensic interviewing of children. He teaches evidence-based investigative-interviewing and oversees the universityтАЩs degree course in Forensic Psychobiology.
