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Criminal Law

  • 11th Edition
  • January 1, 2016
  • Joycelyn M. Pollock
  • English

Wrongful Conviction

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2016
  • Christine Funk
  • English
Wrongful Conviction provides the reader with an understanding of the sources of wrongful conviction. Each chapter presents a topic and then provides a case study on how that topic led to a wrongful conviction and the current state of the law for that topic. Special attention is paid to forensic evidence and studies done by forensic and social scientists that illustrate the complexities leading to wrongful conviction and issues of exoneration. Wrongful Conviction shows the way science and the law both work together and at times conflict with each other in our current criminal justice system.

Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion

  • 1st Edition
  • December 28, 2015
  • Magne Arve Flaten + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion: Psychological and Clinical Implications presents updated research on stress, pain, and emotion, all key research areas within both basic and clinical neuroscience. Improved research understanding of their interaction is ultimately necessary if clinicians and those working in the field of psychosomatic medicine are to alleviate patient suffering. This volume offers broad coverage of that interaction, with chapters written by major researchers in the field. After reviewing the neuroscience of pain and stress, the contents go on to address the interaction between stress and chronic/acute pain, the role of different emotions in pain, neurobiological mechanisms mediating these various interactions, individual differences in both stress and pain, the role of patient expectations during treatment (placebo and nocebo responses), and how those relate to stress modulation. While there are books on the market which discuss pain, stress, and emotion separately, this volume is the first to tackle their nexus, thus appealing to both researchers and clinicians.

Emotions, Technology, and Design

  • 1st Edition
  • December 28, 2015
  • Sharon Tettegah + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Emotional design explicitly addresses the emotional relationship between the objects and the subjects of design—in this book, the objects are technologies, and the subjects are technology users. The first section delves into the philosophy and theory of emotional design to provide a foundation for the rest of the book, which goes on to discuss emotional design principles, the design and use of emoticons, and then intelligent agents in a variety of settings. A conclusion chapter covers future research and directions. Emotions, Technology, and Design provides a thorough look at how technology design affects emotions and how to use that understanding to in practical applications.

Latent Print Processing Guide

  • 1st Edition
  • December 28, 2015
  • Stephen P. Kasper
  • English
  • Paperback
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Latent prints are chance or accidental impressions left by friction-ridge skin on a surface, regardless of whether they are visible or invisible at the time of deposition. Recognition of evidence that may contain fingerprints and the processes that can develop these latent prints is crucial in preventing valuable evidence from being left undetected. Latent Print Processing Guide goes beyond the basic police training, covering latent prints in detail and providing first responders with adequate training and guidelines. To process latent prints, examiners use various techniques including electronic, chemical, cyanoacrylate, and physical methods. Latent Print Processing Guide offers a broad understanding of latent print detection, development, and recovery, including insights on stateof-the-art technologies.