Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology by Charles Patrick Ewing, ISBN-13: 978-0195181760

Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology by Charles Patrick Ewing, ISBN-13: 978-0195181760

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• Publisher: ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 16, 2006)
• Language: ‎ English
• 304 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9780195181760
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0195181760

In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals who experience it firsthand.

Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology gives you an inside view of 20 of the highest profile legal cases of the last 50 years. Drs. Ewing and McCann take you “behind the scenes” of each of these cases, some involving celebrities like Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst, and explain the impact they had on the fields of psychology and the law. Many of the cases in this book, whether involving a celebrity client or an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance, were determined in part by the expert testimony of a psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychology has always played a vital role in so many aspects of the American legal system, and these fascinating trials offer insight into many intriguing psychological issues. In addition to expert testimony, some of the issues discussed in this entertaining and educational book include the insanity defense, brainwashing, criminal profiling, capital punishment, child custody, juvenile delinquency, and
false confessions.

In Minds on Trial, the authors skillfully convey the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights.

Mental health and legal professionals, as well as others with an interest in psychology and the law will have a hard time putting this scholarly, yet readable book down.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION 3
1 GEORGE METESKY Profi ling the “Mad Bomber” 7
2 LEE HARVEY OSWALD The Formative Years of an Assassin 19
3 PATRICIA HEARST Uncommon Victim or Common Criminal? 31
4 THE GUILDFORD FOUR “You Did It, So Why Not Confess?” 45
5 PROSENJIT PODDAR AND TATIANA TARASOFF Where
the Public Peril Begins 57
6 DAN WHITE The Myth of the Twinkie Defense 69
7 CAMERON HOOKER Judging the Experts? 81
8 JOHN W. HINCKLEY, JR. Shooting for the Stars 91
9 JUDAS PRIEST A Message in the Music 103
10 JOHN DEMJANJUK Is He “Ivan the Terrible”? 115
11 THE USS IOWA Equivocating on Death 129
12 JEFFREY DAHMER Serial Murder, Necrophilia, and Cannibalism 141
13 WOODY ALLEN AND MIA FARROW A Swing of King
Solomon’s Sword 153
14 GARY AND HOLLY RAMONA Recovered Memories
or False Allegations? 165
15 COLIN FERGUSON A Fool for a Client? 177
16 RALPH TORTORICI A Question of Competence 191
17 MIKE TYSON Predicting the Violence of a Professional Fighter 205
18 DARYL ATKINS Mental Retardation, Decency, and
the Death Penalty 217
19 ANDREA YATES An American Tragedy 229
20 MICHAEL KANTARAS What Makes a Man a Man? 241
EPILOGUE 253
NOTES 257
INDEX 283

Charles Patrick Ewing is at SUNY Buffalo.

Joseph T. McCann is at Binghamton University.

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