Legal Psychology of Judges to Determine the Defendant’s Ability to Commit a Crime
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- legal psychology, judge’s decision, defendant
- Abstract
In criminal proceedings, law enforcers are required to be as fair as possible.They are not allowed to discriminate, and everyone is entitled to legal protection. Likewise, the judge is required to make a profile analysis of the defendant, related to evidence and witnesses to explain this case thoroughly. Judges need to apply legal psychology in the process of analyzing cases so that they can run effectively and efficiently. Judges are human beings who are the main actors and the spearhead of the defendant’s future, because he decides the severity of the sentence to be obtained by the defendant. So it’s important to understand the mental processes contained in it. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of legal psychology to determine the defendant’s ability to commit a crime. The formulation of the problem in this research is How consideration of the judge in giving judgment in the court? and How can legal psychology help to determine the defendant’s ability to commit a crime?. This research method has applied normative juridical conducted by examining the sources of literature. The results of this study are, that an understanding of the legal psychology is needed, especially about human personality and non-verbal behavior to understand and analyze a legal case. Legal psychology is used to determine the defendant’s ability to commit a crime. Such an understanding can create a fair and comprehensive legal process.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dijan Widijowati AU - Rizky Purnomo Adji PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/20 TI - Legal Psychology of Judges to Determine the Defendant’s Ability to Commit a Crime BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 60 EP - 63 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.012 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.012 ID - Widijowati2020 ER -