Psychology and Criminal Justice

International Review of Theory and Practice. A Publication of the European Association of Psychology and Law

János Boros, Iván Münnich, Márton Szegedi, János Boros, Iván Münnich, Márton Szegedi

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110163292
• eBook ISBN: 9783110804799
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Contributors
• Part 1: Children as Witnesses
• Videotechnology and the Child Witness
• Explaining Conversation Rules as a Method to Reduce Suggestibility of the Child Witness
• Interviewing Children: The Importance of Omission Errors
• The Defence Mechanisms and the Deformations of the Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles
• Part 2: Cognitive Interview and Police Reaction
• Further Perspectives in Cognitive Interviewing: New Directions
• The Effects of the Cognitive Interview on Recall, Recognition and the Confidence/Accuracy Relationship
• Cognitive Interview: When Any Context Reinstatement Instruction is Successful
• Cognitive Interview: Confronting True and False Statements
• Perceptions of the Credibility and Evidential Value of Victim and Suspect Statements in Interviews
• Police Officers’ Inadequate Impression Formation in Confrontations with Offenders as a Result of Physical Effort
• Police Folklore and Attributions of Guilt: Can Psychology Challenge Long Held Assumptions?
• Part 3: Judicial Decision-Making
• State of Ohio v. X: Science and Strategy in the Criminal Court
• Impact on Verdict of Gender Homogeneous Juries in a Case of Rape
• Judicial Decision Making: Information Processing and Judgements Given by Blind Subjects
• Polygraphs in Criminal Justice Systems: The Effect of Different Legal Cultures on the Use of Scientific Evidence
• The Jury Decision Rule: An Empirical Study of Four Methods
• Juror’s Decision in Capital Cases
• Parents Fighting for Custody of Children
• Part 4: Characteristics and Therapy of Offenders
• Boys’ Behavioral Patterns in Kindergarten Predict Male Delinquency, Withdrawal, and School Adjustment
• Assessing Loss of Self-Control in Violent Offences Committed by Juveniles
• Social Competence and Sociomoral Reasoning in Young Offenders
• Feminist Group Therapy for Women Who Self-Harm
• Heterogeneity of Murders as the Fundamental Problem in the Psychological Profiling of a Perpetrator
• Necrophilia: Love at Last Sight
• Are Causal Theories of Paedophilia Possible? A Reconsideration of Sexual Abuse Cycles
• Expert Psychological Opinion for the Court in Cases of Homicide under Emotional Strain in Poland
• The Problem of Depression’s Diagnostic in Forensic and Civil Law in Women
• Part 5: Prison and Offender Research
• Effects of Prison Factors on Recidivism
• Prison Between Values and Efficiency
• Symbolic Patterns in Prisoners’ Thinking: Imported Values and Indigenous Roles?
• Allowing Male Convicted Prisoners to Wear Their Own Clothes: The Psychological Effects
• A Harm Reduction Approach to the Depenalization of Drug Crime via Community Based Outpatient Treatment
• Interplay of Religion, Medicine and Prison: A Preliminary Historical Study Roberts Girgensons
• International Benchmarking
• Training of Prison Officers for Leading Problem-Oriented Groups of Inmates
• Riots in the Romanian Penitentiaries after the Revolution of December 1989
• Correctional Treatment in Portugal
• Part 6: Crime and the Public
• Terrorist Mentality
• Fear of Crime and Victimization
• The Social and Personal Influence of Positive Beliefs on Coping with Direct and Indirect Victimization
• Psychological Aspects of the Process of Victimization
• Victim-Offender Mediation in the Italian Juvenile Justice System: A First Attempt of Definition
• The Impact of Professional Roles on Subjective Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency
• Turning Heroes into Villains: The Role of Unconscious Transference in Media Crime Reporting
• Part 7: History and Perspectives of Law and Psychology
• Comparing Legal Cultures: Difficulties in the Cross-Cultural Applicability of Psychological Research Results
• Recent Changes of the Hungarian Legal System and Their Psychological Impact
• The Effects of the Guarantee System of Human Rights and Legality on the Delinquents
• Legal Psychology in Europe: Results of a Survey
• Difficulties Experienced in Conducting Research in Forensic Psychology
• The Development of Hungarian Forensic Psychology
• Subject Index