Overview
Description
Current evidence considerations and challenges facing judges hearing juvenile and family cases.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- discuss the reliability of eyewitness testimony and utilize clues to help determine its accuracy.
- describe the factors that can affect children’s suggestibility and memory recall and list best practices for conducting interviews with children.
- explain how adolescent brain development, particularly the development of the prefrontal cortex, influences decision-making skills and risk-taking behaviors.
- define and contrast capacity and competency in the context of adolescent maturity/immaturity.
- articulate why juveniles are more vulnerable to interrogation techniques that generate false confessions.
- discuss the purpose of psychological testing, evaluate the qualifications of an expert to give such tests, and determine if such tests are being used appropriately.
- explain how the cases of Frye v. U.S. and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. affected the admissibility of scientific testimony and a judge’s responsibility as a gatekeeper.
- describe the impact of the Sixth Amendment confrontation clause on the admissibility of hearsay.
- assess the legal and social significance of testimonial parent-child privilege.
- identify the role logic, personality, life experience, and values play in judicial decision making.