Meeting Times: Mondays 2pm-4:45pm in SB 107
Instructor: Bryan Myers Office 110G SB 962-3636 Office hours T, TH 11am-12pm or by appt. myersb@uncw.edu
Readings
WEEK 1 Victim Impact Statements and Capital Sentencing Policy
Victim Impact Statements (Myers & Greene)
Victim Impact Statements and Emotionality (Myers, Weidemann, & Pearce)
Emotion Norms and Juror Judgments (Rose)
WEEK2 Daubert and the Admissibility of Polygraph Tests
Polygraph and Daubert (Saxe & Ben-Shakhar)
WEEK 3 Forensic Hypnosis
Sociocognitive theory of hypnosis (Spanos)
Hypnotic memory enhancement (Smith)
Week 4 Competence for Execution
Week 5 Insanity defense
mental disability requirement - Slovenko
constructing insanity - Louder & Skeem
Insanity defense in 21st century-GRACHEK
Week 6 - Child Custody Determinations
Week 8 - Kendra's Law
week 9 - Sexually violent predator laws
Week 10 - Interrogations and confessions