Beliefs and Expectancies in Legal Decision Making

This volume examines how beliefs and expectancies influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions in legal contexts. Topics covered include alibis, children’s testimony behavior, eyewitness testimony, confessions, sexual assault victims, judges’ decisions in child protection cases, and attorneys’ beliefs about jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offender culpability. Areas for future research are identified, and readers are encouraged to discover new ways that beliefs and expectancies operate in the legal system._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychology, Crime & Law.