Social Science in Law: Cases and Materials

The Fourth Edition of Monahan & Walker's Social Science in Law: * Thoroughly incorporates Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision on scientific evidence * Features expanded & in-depth treatment of the growing use of survey methods to establish damages in mass tort cases * Integrates the latest Web site addresses to aid in further social science & legal research.

Preface to Fifth Edition

v

Table of Cases

xxv

Table of Materials

xxix

Jurisprudential Origins of Social Science in Law

1

(26)

Early Developments

2

(14)

The Realist Movement

16

(11)

A Primer of Legal and Social Science Methods

27

(66)

Legal Methods

27

(19)

Social Science Methods

46

(47)

Methods of Asking Questions

47

(10)

Methods of Gathering Information

57

(21)

Methods of Interpreting Information

78

(15)

Social Science Used to Determine Facts

93

(88)

Trademarks

93

(33)

Social Science Evidence and the Hearsay Rule

95

(5)

Social Science Evidence of Consumer Confusion

100

(26)

Obscenity

126

(26)

The Admissibility of Social Science Evidence of Obscenity

127

(5)

Social Science Evidence of ``Community Standards''

132

(20)

Damages

152

(29)

Social Science Used to Make Law

181

(180)

Legislative Facts

181

(4)

Constitutional Law

185

(136)

The Fourteenth Amendment: School Segregation

186

(44)

The First Amendment: Obscenity

230

(19)

The Sixth Amendment: Juries and Witnesses

249

(47)

The Eighth Amendment: The Death Penalty

296

(25)

Common Law

321

(30)

Rules of Evidence

321

(24)

Tort Liability

345

(6)

Social Authority

351

(10)

Social Science Used to Provide Context

361

(202)

Social Science as Context

361

(2)

Contexts for Determining Future Facts

363

(41)

Bail

363

(6)

Parole

369

(6)

Capital Punishment

375

(14)

Tort Liability

389

(15)

Contexts for Determining Present Facts

404

(33)

Illegal Weapons

404

(7)

Illegal Automobiles

411

(4)

Illegal Aliens

415

(4)

Illegal Drugs

419

(18)

Contexts for Determining Past Facts

437

(117)

Defendants

437

(76)

Victims

513

(19)

Witnesses

532

(22)

Social Frameworks

554

(9)

Social Science Used to Plan the Litigation of a Case

563

(41)

Choosing a Venue

563

(13)

Choosing a Jury

576

(15)

Choosing Instructions

591

(13)

APPENDIX

604

(13)

A. Federal Rules of Evidence

604

(5)

B. For Lawyers: How to Find Social Science

609

(3)

C. For Social Scientists: How to Find the Law

612

(5)

Index

617

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