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Reviewing Crime Psychology
About this book
The recent explosion of research and practice relating to offending and the related investigative and legal processes makes it extremely difficult for anyone to master these emerging areas of research. This book will help readers to navigate through this rapidly expanding area of scholarship and practice by bringing together a number of recent reviews on key topics by leading experts in the field.
Contributions to the volume discuss developments in the study of interviewing and the detection of deception together with explorations of victims and offenders. The psychological background and consequences of school bullying, child sexual abuse and male rape are also explored, as are the challenges of collecting information about crimes as varied as burglary and serial killing.
This book will be a valuable resource for criminologists, crime and forensic psychologists, students of socio-legal processes and all those involved in legal and investigative activities.
The chapters in this book were originally published as review articles in Crime Psychology Review.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Reviewing Crime Psychology
- 1 A review of the collective interviewing approach to detecting deception in pairs
- 2 Drawing-based deception detection techniques: a state-of-the-art review
- 3 Systematic errors (biases) in applying verbal lie detection tools: richness in detail as a test case
- 4 Open Access: A review of the polygraph: history, methodology and current status
- 5 Veracity assessment: aspects of the account, the source and the judge that influence judgements of plausibility
- 6 A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness
- 7 A review of eyewitness identification in the United States: problems and policies
- 8 Whistle-blowing in American police agencies
- 9 The CSI effect and its controversial existence and impact: a mixed methods review
- 10 Childhood victimization and prostitution. A developmental victimology perspective
- 11 Schizophrenia and violence: realities and recommendations
- 12 The origin of sexual homicide: a review
- 13 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, impulsivity, and low self-control: which is most useful in understanding and preventing offending?
- 14 Environmental factors in juvenile delinquency: A systematic review of the situational perspectives’ literature
- 15 Comparing factors related to school-bullying and cyber-bullying
- 16 Male rape: what we know, don’t know and need to find out—a critical review
- 17 Open Access: Third-party responses to injustice: a review on the preference for compensation
- 18 Measuring offending: self-reports, official records, systematic observation and experimentation
- 19 Addressing the challenges and limitations of utilizing data to study serial homicide
- 20 Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse: A Review of Factors that Impact Proceedings in the Courtroom
- Index