In assessing the risk of future violence, predictive markers that change over time and may be responsive to treatment are referred to as:

Cross-race effect has been shown to maintain consistent strength:

Biometrics is the:

As noted in the text, almost three quarters of the jury deliberation time is devoted to the _____, and about 20% of the time is dedicated to discussing the _____.

Studies show that a judge’s instruction to ignore certain information as inadmissible evidence may often lead to the opposite: the effect of this information on the jurors is amplified. The text mentions all of the following explanations as possible reasons for this effect, EXCEPT:

Mock juries benefit trial lawyers when the actual trial and jury selection takes place because:

Biometrics is the:

Sabrina works as a bank teller. When one of the customers pointed a gun at her and demanded that she give him the key to the safe deposit box, she was so frightened that she could barely move. After the customer got the key, Sabrina was told to raise her hands and stand with her face into the wall for the rest of the time the bank robbery was unfolding. About 30 seconds passed between the time when Sabrina first saw the customer and the time she was told to turn to the wall with her hands raised. When recalling the event, she is likely to estimate that 30-second time period to have lasted about:

Research on improving eyewitness identification procedures is especially important in light of considerable human costs to false identification. Which one of the following is NOT among these costs?

The courts’ decisions with regard to civil commitment laws tend to support the idea that psychological experts _____ predict future violence, _____.