β Scribed by Caroline Clemmons
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who have appeared as expert witnesses in a variety of court cases. Many of the cases covered in this book revolve around central issues of murder, self-defense, religious cults, battered women, child pornography, environmentalism, and homelessness. This volume is unique in its breadth of topics and con.;Old stories, new audiences: sociological knowledge in courts / Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins -- "We don't deal in probabilities here": tales of a quantitative sociologist in court / Joseph E. Jacoby -- Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: self-defense of the statistical expert / William E. Feinberg -- Sociology and capital murder: a question of life or death / Craig J. Forsyth -- When murder may be suicide and "yes" means "I heard you": the sociologist as a cultural interpreter / Patricia G. Steinhoff -- Contested knowledge: battered women as agents and victims / Pamela J. Jenkins -- Sociology and the new religions: "brainwashing" the courts, and religious freedom / James T. Richardson -- Sociology, medicine, and chemical dependency: embedding drugs and alcohol in sociocultural contexts / Barry Kinsey -- The sociologist, gangs, and battered women: representing the discipline in the courts / Lee H. Bowker -- Sociology and negligent security: premise liability and crime prediction / Lydia Voigt and William E. Thornton, Jr. -- Obscenity and child pornography: sociology in defense of sexually oriented materials / Philip Holley -- Toxins in the environment, damage to the community: sociology and the toxic court -- J. Steven Picou -- Housing the homeless: the sociologist as expert and activist / Hilary Silver, Steven Fishbach, and Judith Kaye.
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