Whores of the Court
ISBN #0060391979
ReganBooks

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Chapter 1:
Whores of the Court
Psychologists as De Factos Triers-Of-Fact in Our Justice System

Chapter 2:
Psychopathological Science
Clinical Research

Chapter 3:
Three Kinds of
Liars
History of the Forensic Psychology Industry

Chapter 4:
Learning to Read Tea Leaves
Growing the Forensic Psychology Industry

Chapter 5:
Getting Away with
Murder
Criminal Diagnostics

Chapter 6:
Music Therapy for Wife Killers
Rehabbing Convicts

Chapter 7:
Construction of the
Psychological Child

The Child and the Law

Chapter 8:
In the Best Interests of the Child
Parental Rights and Psychoexperts

Chapter 9:
Remembrance of Things Past
Psychic Injuries from Long Ago

Chapter 10:
Four Hundred Ways to Avoid Responsibility
Disordered, Disabled, Dispensed

Chapter 11:
Rest for the Wary
Deciding without Experts

 

Chapter 7:
Construction of the Psychological Child

The Child and The Law

Juveniles, Justice, and Psychological Knowledge about Children 170
Maturational Competence 172
Ruined Lives and Rehabilitation 174
The Myth of Courtroom Trauma 180
The Myth of the Fragile Child 182
The Myth of the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth 184
Tragic Reliance on Pseudoexperts 194

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Professor Margaret A. Hagen