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Are Forensic Experts Already Biased Before Adversarial Legal Parties Hire Them?

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This survey of 206 forensic psychologists tested the “filtering” effects of preexisting expert attitudes in adversarial proceedings. Results confirmed the hypothesis that evaluator attitudes toward capital punishment influence willingness to accept capital case referrals from particular adversarial parties. Stronger death penalty opposition was associated with higher willingness to conduct evaluations for the defense and higher likelihood of rejecting referrals from all sources Conversely, stronger support was associated with higher willingness to be involved in capital cases generally, regardless of referral source. The findings raise the specter of skewed evaluator involvement in capital evaluations, where evaluators willing to do capital casework may have stronger capital punishment support than evaluators who opt out, and evaluators with strong opposition may work selectively for the defense. The results may provide a partial explanation for the “allegiance effect” in adversarial legal settings such that preexisting attitudes may contribute to partisan participation through a self-selection process.

Date Created
2016-04-28
Contributors
  • Neal, Tess M.S. (Author, Designer, Analyst)
Topical Subject
  • forensic
  • Capital Punishment
  • decision
  • Bias
  • attitude
  • Death Penalty
  • psychology
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Language
eng
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Neal, Tess
Identifier
Digital object identifier: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154434
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44484
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Neal, T.M.S. (2016). Are forensic experts already biased before adversarial legal parties hire them? PLoS ONE, 11, e0154434. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154434.

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This research was conducted as part of the author’s doctoral dissertation under the mentorship of Stanley L. Brodsky, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama (UA). Thanks to Jacklyn E. Nagle, Philip J. Neal, and Mary Beth Hubbard at UA for helping with mail survey preparation and data entry, to Erik J. Girvan at the University of Oregon School of Law for helpful feedback and advice, and the psychologist-participants for their time, effort, and feedback.
Portions of these results were presented at the 2012 annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the 2013 annual AP-LS conference in Portland, OR.
All data underlying the findings described in this manuscript are available from the Open Science Framework at the following URL: https://osf.io/dpk3z/, opens in a new window.
The dissertation was supported by a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation (GR23141). The author was supported in part by an NSF Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship (SES1228559) during the writing of this manuscript. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of NSF. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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