Brooke Butler
Brooke Butler
Assistant Professor Sarasota
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Office: SMC C250
Phone: (941) 359-4447
Fax: (941) 359-4489
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Research
Professor Brooke Butler received her Ph.D. in legal psychology from Florida International University. Her research is highly applied, policy-oriented, and concerns the social psychological factors that jeopardize defendants' right to due process. Professor Butler’s areas of scholarship include death qualification, jurors’ attitudes, individual-difference variables, the insanity defense, prejudice, aggravating and mitigating circumstances, post-sentence civil commitment, capital trial judges’ decision making processes, and pretrial publicity.
Professor Butler has published book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and articles in the American Journal of Forensic Psychology, American Psychology-Law Society News, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Psychology, Crime, and Law, and The Jury Expert. In 2007 and 2008, Professor Butler was the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Research Award at the University of South Florida-Sarasota and her research has been funded by grants from the University of South Florida as well as the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association). Professor Butler’s research has been cited by CNN, Court TV, the Death Penalty Information Center, The Economist, Inter Press Service News Agency, The New York Times, and U.S. News & World Report, as well as various state and local media outlets.
Professor Butler has conducted psycholegal research for numerous high-profile criminal and civil cases, but currently devotes her litigation consulting practice to capital defense work. Most notably, she has provided expert testimony in the following capital trials: FL v. Davis, FL v. Henderson, FL v. Johnston, FL. v. King, FL v. Lugo, FL v. Murphy, FL v. Ross, FL v. Smith, and NH v. Brooks.