A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Tabula Rasa, Likelihood Ratios In Diagnostic Testing, Gorilla Suit
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4 questions: can it be established, beyond reasonable doubt, that the suspect committed the crime (legal) Is it a criminal act: are there any exception clauses precluding the suspect"s guilt? (forensic, which sanction is called for? (forensic) End goal: establish whether or not the suspect committed the crime at hand. Conviction requires at least two, preferably independent, pieces of evidence. Criminal procedure is inquisitorial in many continental systems, civil procedure is. Legal facts in a civil verdict van be remote from the actual truth (e. g if both parties agree that the grass is blue that will be taken as fact) In conclusion: while many legal psychologists focus on application of psychological knowledge to criminal cases, there is reason to argue that civil cases may benefit at least to similar extent from psychological insight. Inhibit unwanted emotional reactions and transfer to another target: projection, attributing unwanted emotions to someone else, repression, motivated removal of unwanted impulses, behaviourism, overt measurable behaviour.
