On the witness stand : essays in psychology and crime / Hugo Münsterberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal psychology.

Evidence (Law).

Forensic psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.

Summary:

"Just in the line of the law it seems necessary not to rely simply on the technical statements of scholarly treatises, but to carry the discussion in the most popular form possible before the wider tribunal of the general reader. With this aim in mind--while working at a treatise on "Applied Psychology," which is to cover the whole ground with technical detail--I have written the following popular sketches, which select only a few problems in which psychology and law come in contact. They deal essentially with the mind of the witness on the witness stand; only the last, on the prevention of crime, takes another direction. The psychology of the witness is treated in no way exhaustively; my only purpose is to turn the attention of serious men to an absurdly neglected field which demands the full attention of the social community"--Introd. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

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