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Assessment of Family Violence: A Clinical and Legal Sourcebook

Second Edition

Almost every mental health professional is faced with evaluating individuals and families involved in domestic violence, including child abuse and neglect, incest, battering, elder abuse, and psychological abuse. This valuable resource is the only book exclusively devoted to the assessment of all types of family violence and explains how to determine if family violence is occurring. Through the work and contributions of preeminent researchers and practitioners, the Second Edition includes:

State-of-the-art, empirically driven approaches to the clinical evaluation of violence involving children and adults
Specific assessment measures to assess future risk and specialized issues, such as children who have witnessed marital violence and adult incest survivors
Case examples and a new chapter on child neglect
Current issues in the assessment of family violence, child maltreatment, and couples violence
Assessment of elder abuse, woman battering, and extrafamilial child sexual abuse.

Critical Acclaim for the First Edition

"A rare combination of excellent writing and editing, up-to-date and carefully presented reviews of the knowledge base, and practical and useful information about treatment and prevention. Of the many books that have been published in the last few years on family violence, this is one of the most valuable." —Child Abuse and Neglect.

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Expert Witness - easy style.......2006-03-24

This is an excellent book for the beginner who is interested in becoming an Expert Witness. The maxims are great in that after reading the chapter, you get one point made simply from all that was read. Also, this book gives you tips that you wouldn't normally think of -- even including how to dress for court.

Well worth the time to read if you testify as an expert.......2006-03-23

Everyone who has testified in Court has at least one horror story where the attorney made them look foolish or worse. This book prepares you with an understanding of the process, procedures and roles of courts and attorneys. Knowing how to handle those tough situations can increase confidence on the stand and reduce the disenchantment of having been "brow beaten" by an attorney. Everyone, but the most experienced expert witness will find this book invaluable.

Older but not out-of-date.......2004-07-06

This is Brodsky's first book on Expert Witnessing and is now 6+ years old. It remains one of the best primers on what to expect, particularly for the psychologist, when working in a forensic environment. It is easy to read, has great stories, offers good citations, and covers a deceptively wide range of central issues for anyone wanting to be better prepared for work with lawyers and the courts. Each "chapter" is 2-3 pages in length, which makes them easy to read and digest in brief periods as each "chapter" is independent and stands alone well. I have read all three of the books in this "series" by Brodsky and continue to view this one as the best of the three.

Psychological.......2002-02-02

I did enjoy this book and found vaious helpful and useful advice for testifying. However, the entire book is written from a psychologist's point of view and virtually all the examples and stories are from psychologist's testifying in court.

Being in the computer profession I had to relate how my experience would apply to the maxims and examples provided in this book. This was easy for some maxims, difficult for others, while some maxims and examples totally did not apply at all.

Invaluable for the Novice.......2000-03-04

After reading this book in preparation for an upcoming trial, I felt more confident and more in control for my role as an expert witness. I actually enjoyed testifying.

The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court

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practical, helpful and entertaining!!!
The Expert Expert is Pignant
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The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court
Stanley L. Brodsky
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Solid, entertaining advice.......2007-09-30

You can't lose with Brodsky. I was chewed up by a DA once as a character witness, and this would have prevented that. Brodsky doesn't grind out simple self-help stuff, you will feel that you bought a real book this time. Plenty of examples and angles, plenty of psychology and principles to apply.

practical, helpful and entertaining!!!.......2006-03-26

an enjoyable, entertaining read. very useful content. brodsky cuts to the chase. he doesn't provide much detail regarding legal background, rules of evidence, criminal procedure, etc. in this book. he provides the essential information for the mental health professional to survive and be successful in direct and cross-examination. i believe it is worthwhile reading. for the alleviated fears, improved performance, and reduced potential embarrassing moments on the stand, it is certainly worth $13.

The Expert Expert is Pignant.......2004-04-12

Ten years ago I read Dr. Brodsky's first expert book aqnd it was enjoyable and to the point. As a forensic psychologist having done many cases I find his new book The Expert Expert entertaining yet poignant when covering the issues and advice offered. "The Paint by Numbers" metaphore is critical for the the practicing professional. This book will be a valuable and useful addition to the mental health practitioner's library

A Must-Read..........2001-06-02

...for anyone who is involved in legal proceedings, professionally or otherwise. Brodsky's latest installment, based on his obviously extensive experience and insights, is replete with useful info for both those who testify and those who solicit expert testimony. At the same time, it's marvelously well written and entertaining and hard to put down once you start reading it. Brodksy has clearly done it again, and let's hope there's a third installment in the works.

Powerful and invaluable tool.......2001-05-19

The Expert Expert Witness by Dr. Stan Brodsky is a powerful and invaluable tool, for novice and expert experts alike. Dr. Brodsky's writing is extremely engaging, witty, and articulate, yet the text's informal style does not minimize the importance of testifying as a professional. This book differs from other expert witness books in that it emphasizes professional competency, preparedness, and responsibility, in the context of personal integrity. The book clearly explains legal rulings applicable to expert testimony, integrated with Dr. Brodsky's vast experiential knowledge. I highly recommend that the Expert Expert Witness become a permanent part of your personal and professional library!

Child Custody: Practice Standards, Ethical Issues, and Legal Safeguards for Mental Healthprofessionals

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Child Custody: Practice Standards, Ethical Issues, and Legal Safeguards for Mental Healthprofessionals
Robert Henley Woody
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Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory, Suggestibility, or Obedience to Authority? (Haworth Criminal Justice, Forensic Behavioral Sciences, & Offender ... Sciences, & Offender Rehabilitation)

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Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory, Suggestibility, or Obedience to Authority? (Haworth Criminal Justice, Forensic Behavioral Sciences, & Offender ... Sciences, & Offender Rehabilitation)
Jon'A Meyer
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Legal Blame: How Jurors Think and Talk About Accidents (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)

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"Total Justice": The Key to Unlocking Jurors' Minds
Everyone Should Read This!

Legal Blame: How Jurors Think and Talk About Accidents (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)
Neal Feigenson
Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
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Biased Reviews.......2003-03-17

I think it unfortunate that a relative and a former student provide two glowing, 5 star reviews of this work. Buyer beware.

"Total Justice": The Key to Unlocking Jurors' Minds.......2000-08-07

At the beginning of this review, I need to disclose my bias: I have known Neal Feigenson for nearly 15 years: He was on the faculty at the law school which I attended, and I consider him a friend, as well as a mentor of sorts. Although I candidly concede, therefore, that I cannot be entirely objective about anything written by Professor Feigenson, I am confident that, by any standard, this is a marvelously intelligent and incisive book at the intersection of law and social psychology.

Torts is taught in the first year of law school. The black- letter law - those legal rules which must be learned - could fit on an index card. Nevertheless, the concept of negligence, which is the most important topic in torts, and its application to cases ranging from automobile collisions to medical malpractice, is very difficult. In jury trials, principles of negligence are applied by lay jurors selected precisely because they know little or nothing about law. That sounds like a recipe for farce, if not disaster, but it has evolved in Anglo-American law over a period of nearly 1,000 years. As a result, Professor Feigenson's effort to explain how jurors comprehend, interpret, and apply the rules of legal blame is very important. According to Professor Feigenson:: "Legal blaming is multidimensional: It springs from common sense and is also shaped by legal rules, expert rationales, and the facts of the individual case." The essence of Feigenson thesis is: "If there is any overarching pattern in [complex lay decision making] it is that jurors try to achieve what I call total justice. They strive to square all accounts between the parties (even though the issues the law asks them to resolve may not be framed in those terms), to consider all information they deem relevant (even if the law tries to keep them from relying on some of it), to reach a decision that is correct as a whole (even if they reach it by blurring legally distinct questions), and to feel right about their decision (even though the law discourages them from using their emotions to decide). In Feigenson's view, "the more original and important that this book makes to the understanding of lay decision making" is to "examine how the words that advocates use to persuade jurors and the words jurors themselves use to explain their decisions in several accident cases reflect the social psychology of total justice." In the introduction, Professor Feigenson makes these important points: "A very small portion of all accidental injuries, about 1 in 10, results in claims for compensation of any sort, and only a fraction of these lead to lawsuits;" and "Of all tort cases filed, about 5% or less are resolved by verdict at trial." Later he provides this interesting statistic. "[P]laintiffs win only a little more than half of tort cases tried to juries: over 60% for auto accidents, about 40% for products liability, and about 30% of medical malpractice." I find that surprising: My experience is that most strong plaintiffs' cases settle, so I might have expected the percentage of plaintiffs' verdicts to be lower. In addition, for reasons not clear to me, slip-and-fall cases are not included; they are notoriously difficult to win and, had they been factored in, the rate of plaintiffs' victories would have decreased. According to Professor Feigenson, he seeks to "shed light not just on outcomes (of lay decision making) but on how people get to those outcomes." According to Feigenson, "[t]hree general features characterize lay judgment when it is applied to" accident cases: (1) Jurors tend to conceive of accidents as melodramas; (2) Juror's common sense about accidents is full of contradictions; and (3) Jurors strive "to give total justice." Feigenson writes: "By `total justice,' I mean that jurors are more concerned with making things come out right than with strictly following the relevant legal rules." One of Professor Feigenson's most important observations is that "social psychology suggests that jurors may tend to conceive of accidents as melodramas." He defines "melodrama" as "a narrative in which (a) events such as accidents, are caused by individual human agency; (b) the acts of individuals are explicable in terms of their character; (c) the agents involved in the accident can be divided into `good guys' and `bad guys'; (d) the focus of the narrative is the accident victim and his or her suffering; and (e) the good guy wins (at trial) and the bad guy gets his or her comeuppance." According to Feigenson: "People's preferences for simple, indeed monocausal, accounts of events points toward a melodramatic conception of accidents, in which one and only one party is to blame." However, he acknowledges limitations on the melodramatic conception of accidents. For instance, jurors "do not simply yield to the melodrama often offered by plaintiffs' attorneys," and "the plaintiff's lawyer may not construct the case primarily as a melodrama." Professor Feigenson devotes a couple of chapters to actual cases, and the information presented is intriguing, although probably not extensive enough to draw authoritative conclusions. There is, therefore, plenty of room for additional investigation. According to Feigenson: "The ideal way to learn how laypeople think and talk about blame and compensation when they are serving as jurors would be to listen to them deliberate. For the most part, however, observing or recording actual jury deliberations is prohibited." But litigants are increasingly taking advantage of various forms of alternative dispute resolution outside the courts, and this includes "private" jury trials. There is no reason, with the consent of the parties and attorneys, why deliberations in private jury trials could not be observed, recorded, and analyzed by properly-credentialed researchers.

In conclusion, this book is superb. Neal Feigenson is a gifted teacher, able to communicate complicated concepts clearly. I recommend Legal Blame both to trial lawyers seeking insights into how juries arrive at verdicts and to members of the general reading public who are interested in the inner workings of the most important proceeding in the civil justice system.

Everyone Should Read This!.......2000-06-29

Legal Blame is the best book I've ever read about how juries think. The author explains in simple, clear language the psychology of how and why jurors blame someone for an accident, and shows how that psychology is reflected in the words that lawyers use when they try to persuade juries as well as in the jurors' own words. The book makes it possible to get inside the jurors' heads as they decide these cases, and that makes it easier to understand why the jurors decided as they did, whether you agree with their decisions or not. The background chapters on the tort law system and the cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of emotions, were extremely clear (I'm not a lawyer or a psychologist, and I felt I understood all of it) and helpful. I feel that from now on I'll be a much more educated consumer of television and newspaper coverage of jury trials and the legal system.

Race and the Jury:: Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice (Plenum Series in Crime and Justice)

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Race and the Jury:: Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice (Plenum Series in Crime and Justice)
Hiroshi Fukurai , Edgar W. Butler , and Richard Krooth
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In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

Mastering Expert Testimony: A Courtroom Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

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Mastering Expert Testimony: A Courtroom Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
William T. Tsushima , Jr., Robert M. Anderson , and Robert M. Anderson
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