Brian L. Cutler, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Professor Cutler is a nationally known scholar in the area of Psychology and Law, particularly in the areas of eyewitness memory and jury decision making. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has been published in dozens of articles in journals such as Law and Human Behavior and Journal of Applied Psychology. Professor Cutler is the primary author of Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology, and the Law and has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes on Psychology and Law topics. Currently, Professor Cutler is Editor-in-Chief of Law and Human Behavior, the journal of the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41, American Psychological Association).
This set is edited by Cutler (psychology, Univ. of North Carolina),
whoalready has to his credit other scholarly works on the growing
field ofpsychology and the law, including Mistaken Identification:
TheEyewitness, Psychology and the Law. The legal topics addressed
here spanthe major subdivisions of psychology-i.e., cognitive,
developmental,clinical, biological, and industrial/organizational.
The 400 entries areauthored by a score of international
contributors, range in length fromone to five pages, and are
arranged alphabetically by topic. In theintroduction, readers are
encouraged to use the Reader′s Guide, whicharranges entries
thematically-indeed, many entries appear in multiplecategories of
the guide, and aspects of any given topic can range acrossthe two
volumes. For example, the "Death Penalty" entry does not includethe
same information found in the "Racial Bias and the Death
Penalty"entry. The text offers the occasional unnecessary
observation, such asthe first sentence in the "Sex Offender
Community Notification (Megan′sLaws)" entry: "Sexual assault is a
serious problem of great concern."Well, yes, absolutely, but we
don′t need this encyclopedia to tell usthat. BOTTOM LINE There is
no other reference work on psychology and thelaw, so libraries
supporting curricula in this area may considerpurchasing. But
because this field of study is still in its infancy, andit remains
to be seen whether it will grow into something major, thisset is
otherwise an optional purchase for most libraries.
—Katherine Mossman, Everett P.L., WA
*Library Journal*
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