PSY 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Procedural Justice, Availability Heuristic, Threat Assessment
9 Mar 2016
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Judge may ask if you are employed, access to money, etc. Privately retained, public defenders, court appointed (pd conflict) Variability is greater in court appointed lawyers than in public defender. If charges are retained or reduced, you must send to grand jury. Anchoring: subsequent negotiations around the starting point. Add susbsequent charges so that the plea lessens the severity and sentence. Who has influence over this person? partner, parent, child, grown friend. Who can offer a different point of view. Amount depends on seriousness of alledged offense, how likely you are to appear for trial (how much of a flight risk are you), Individual"s probability of individ committing another unspecified act of violence, illegality. Eg: domestic violence, person has threatened partner, Person presents continued and ongoing threat to harm partnet. Subject to another heuristic (the availability heuristic) People who succeed and do not succeed on bail.
