Judges, Decision Making and Empathy : Insights from the Bench (Hardcover)

Introduction: Filling in a Partial Image of Empathy in Judging;??1. Empathy in the Legal Context: Advances and Gaps in Current Research;??2. Methodology, Study Context, And Challenges;??3. Judges and the Struggle to Understand Empathy;??4. Extracting the role and place of empathy in judicial decision-making: The judge’s perspective;??5. Empathy and Impartiality: “Friends” or “Foes”???6. Developing Judicial Empathy Through Training Methods: A Psychological Perspective;??Conclusion