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Front Cover\nCase Studies of Famous Trials and the Construction of Guilt and Innocence\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of contents\nList of tables\nList of abbreviations\nIntroduction\n The content of this book\n1 Failing to Establish Guilt in the Trial of Casey Anthony\n The death of Caylee Marie Anthony\n Establishing guilt: the prosecution’s strategy\n The prosecution’s case for premeditated murder in the trial of Casey Anthony\n Opportunity and motive\n Challenging opportunity and motive\n Capability\n Redefining capability\n Reconstructing the story\n Closing statements: was it premeditated murder or not?\n The verdict\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n2 The Tension Between Evidence and Storytelling in the Trial of James Hanratty\n The crime\n The investigation\n The prosecution’s case\n The defence\n Verdict and aftermath\n The story model of juror decision-making\n Stories about the A6 murder\n The DNA evidence\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n3 Consistency and Inconsistency in Stories: The Case of Dr Crippen\n Dinner with the Crippens\n Inconsistency, reliability and credibility\n Inconsistent with common sense (implausibility)\n Inconsistent narratives\n Contradictory statements\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n4 The Role of Credibility and Believability in the Trial of Rosemary West\n What is credibility?\n Intrinsic credibility\n Extrinsic credibility\n The reliability of behavioural cues to deception\n The credibility of victims is important too\n The verdict\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n5 Techniques of Neutralisation and the Conviction of the Oklahoma Bomber, Timothy McVeigh\n The crime, investigation and indictment\n McVeigh’s desired defence strategy\n The defence strategy in court, the verdict and the sentence\n Techniques of neutralisation\n When techniques of neutralisation work and when they do not\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n6 Language Style and Persuasion in the Criminal Trial of O.J. Simpson\n The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman\n The criminal trial\n What are closing statements in a criminal trial?\n The forensic technique and rhetorical structure in closing statements\n The oratorical features of language style\n The prosecution’s powerless speech style\n Powerless and powerful speech styles and the physical evidence\n Powerless and powerful speech styles and the integrity of witnesses\n Powerless and powerful speech style and the use of metaphors\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n7 Social Geometry and the Acquittal of Michael Jackson\n Background\n Black’s theory on the behaviour of law\n Celebrities on trial\n Dimension 1: Stratification/socio-economics\n Dimension 2: Morphology/radial status\n Dimension 3: Cultural status\n Dimension 4: Organisation\n Dimension 5: Social control/normative status\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n8 The Role of Vulnerability in the Alleged False Confession and Subsequent Conviction of Brendan Dassey\n The murder of Teresa Halbach\n False confessions\n Those at risk of making a false confession\n Adolescents\n Intellectual disability\n How a compliant or internalised false confession occurs\n The misclassification error\n The coercion error: maximisation tactics\n The coercion error: minimisation tactics\n The contamination error\n The experts agree …\n The jury’s still out\n The PEACE model\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n9 The Defence of Diminished Responsibility and the Trial of Peter Sutcliffe\n Background\n The defence of insanity\n Diminished responsibility\n Factors that affect the success or failure of an insanity defence\n Motive\n Psychiatric and criminal history\n Nature of the crime\n Evidence of planning\n Victims\n Neurobiological evidence\n The defence strategy to establish the partial defence of diminished responsibility\n The defence: direct examination of Peter Sutcliffe\n Direct examination of Dr Hugo Milne\n The prosecution strategy: challenging the state of mind (motive)\n The prosecution: cross-examination of Peter Sutcliffe\n Cross-examinations of psychiatrists Dr Hugo Milne, Dr Terence Kay and Dr Malcolm MacCulloch\n The verdict, aftermath and beyond\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n10 Common Sense and the ‘Reasonable Person’ in the Trial of Oscar Pistorius\n The shooting of Reeva Steenkamp\n The trial of Oscar Pistorius\n Was the shooting a mistake?\n Common sense and world knowledge\n Choosing between the stories\n Was the shooting lawful?\n Self-defence and the ‘reasonable person’\n Was Pistorius’s behaviour reasonable?\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\n11 Amanda Knox’s Trial in the Media\n The crime, convictions and acquittals\n Framing Amanda Knox\n Media coverage of trials and its influence on verdicts\n Conclusion\n Recommended reading\n Notes\nAfterword\n References\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover