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Neal Feigenson, JD
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301 pages
ITEM #: 4315191
ISBN: 1-55798-834-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-834-8
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2001
EDITION: Softcover
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This book sheds new light on how jurors try to do justice in the wake of accidents and reveals much about the overall psychology of jury decision-making. Neal Feigenson, a professor of law, offers an illuminating framework for how jurors deploy their common sense, together with the law and the facts, to produce what the author refers to as "total justice."
Feigenson analyzes both the words lawyers use to help jurors assign blame and the words jurors themselves use as they make decisions. With a minimal use of jargon, the author summarizes the leading research from social and cognitive psychology to show how everyday habits of thought and feeling inform jurors' decisions. Contrary to common stereotypes about jurors, jurors integrate their thoughts and feelings to reach decisions that are usually correct enough by legal standards, although not always for what the law would consider the right reasons. Legal Blame provides a nuanced appreciation of the civil jury, with clear examples and in-depth analysis of how jurors help make tort law.
A unique book that spans both professions, Legal Blame helps explains psychology to non-psychologists and the law to non-lawyers. It will appeal to lawyers, expert witnesses, practicing students, academics, as well as anyone who is interested in learning about the psychology of legal persuasion.
This book is part of the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences Series.
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