Questions and Answers of Forensic And Legal Psychology

How much should the behavior of the victim matter in determining whether sexual harassment occurred?
What should companies do to reduce the likelihood of sexual harassment in the workplace?
What accommodations are reasonable for religious employees?
What principles and standards would you use in deciding salaries for professors at a university or attorneys at a law firm?
What would be on your list of “protected categories”? Why?
Are there circumstances in which men and women should receive different salaries for doing the same job?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the present legal standard for civil commitment?
Should clinicians have a duty to protect their clients’ identifiable potential victims, as the California Supreme Court held in the Tarasoff case? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this
What should be the trade-off between false positives and false negatives in predictions of violence? Should it depend on the legal context (e.g., death penalty versus civil commitment)?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the present legal standard for sexual predator civil commitment?
Should sex offenders be treated differently from other types of offenders?
If community notification laws have no effect on reoffense rates, should they be abandoned?
Are SVP laws morally and ethically appropriate? Should it matter whether dangerous individuals will receive effective treatment, or should protection of society be a sufficient reason to confine
When (if ever) should clinical judgment be used to adjust actuarial predictions of risk?
How could dynamic and risk-management markers be more effectively integrated into assessments of the risk of violence?
Should actuarial instruments be used in risk assessments when deciding whether an individual should receive the death penalty?
Which factors should and should not be taken into account when sentencing someone convicted of a crime? Why those factors and not other factors?
Who should go to prison and for how long? Murderers? Rapists? Drug dealers? People convicted of financial crimes? All of them?
Should supermax prisons be humane?
Should the effects of racial bias and the history of U.S. racism be considered when sentencing nonwhite criminals? Explain your answer.
If you were the victim of a mugging in which you were beaten up, would you be willing to engage in victim–offender mediation? Why or why not?
Should prison conditions and programs be allowed to vary substantially from state to state?
What should be the dominant goal of prisons? Should the goal be the same for every prisoner?
Given that prisoners become acculturated to prison life, how can they be “de-acculturated” before being released back into the community?
Because no legal system is perfect, there will always be some number of errors in capital cases. What level of error is acceptable in death penalty cases?
Should people who oppose the use of the death penalty be allowed to serve as jurors in capital trials?
Why do you think the United States is different from other advanced democracies in its continued use of the death penalty?
Does the empirical research on capital punishment influence your support for or opposition to the death penalty? Can you think of any empirical research that would change your opinion on the death
Does it matter how many years a condemned prisoner spends on death row before being executed?
What are the best arguments in support of the death penalty? What are the best arguments against the death penalty?
Should juror misunderstanding of instructions in a capital penalty trial be grounds for overturning a death sentence?
Would you be willing to serve as a juror in a capital case? Why or why not?

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