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29 Cards in this Set
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Assumes that people have free will
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Law
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Assumes that people actions are determined by internal and eternal forces
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PSYC
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Makes moral judgment of responsibility
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LAW
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Does not make moral judgments; science seeks to understand
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PSYC
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Proximate (Closest) cause is legally responsible cause
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LAW
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All effective causes, no matter how distant are important
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PSYC
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Values are important
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LAW
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Values are less important than formal relationships between events
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PSYC
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The practice of law is very much an art
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LAW
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Science attempts to contribute to general principles
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PSYC
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Trials involve ceremony
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LAW
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Very little ceremony is utilized
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PSYC
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Law attempts to resolve a specific case
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LAW
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Science attempts to contribute to general principles
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PSYC
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Loyalty is primarily to one’s client
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LAW
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One’s loyalty is given only to the truth
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PSYC
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Rules of evidence screen data
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LAW
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Legal system is frequently pressed by time
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LAW
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Scientist are usually not pressed by time
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PSYC
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People decide outcome of a case
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LAW
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Objective experiments decide results
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PSYC
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Procedure is critical
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LAW
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Procedure is comparatively less important
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PSYC
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The unique case is important
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PSYC
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Attorneys develop evidence helpful to their side and hide evidence that is not
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LAW
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Science is interested in evidence that does not support the theory; that is how new understandings emerge
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PSYC
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Law will suppress evidence even if it demonstrates guilty (if evidence is not properly obtained)
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LAW
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Science uses evidence from any source
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PSYC
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Forensic reports, like all clinical reports, contain three broad classes of information:
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A the clinical data
B inference or opinions; and C logic explaining the relation between data and opinions |
