Advances in Psychology and Law

International Contributions

Santiago Redondo, Vicente Garrido, Jorge Pérez, Rosemary Barberet, Santiago Redondo, Vicente Garrido, Jorge Pérez, Rosemary Barberet

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110156157
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110801163
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Contributors
• Part I: Law and Psychology in Different Countries
• Law and Psychology in Europe: Current Status and Future Perspectives
• Psychology and Law in Latin America•. State of the Art
• Criminological and Legal Psychology in Portugal: Past, Present and Future
• Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Policies, Practices and Public Opinion
• Psychological Aspects of the Family Law Reform and the Influences in Legislation after the German Unification
• Part II: Victimology
• Criminal Behavior and the Pre-Victimization Process: Three Studies on Neutralization, Redefinition, and Desensitization
• Criminal Victimization and Well-Being: A Prospective Study on the Direct and Buffering Effects of Personality Traits
• Victimological Aspects of Computer Crimes
• Victimization in Close Relationships: On the Darkness of “Dark Figures”
• The Victim’s Experience and Fear of Crime. A Contribution to the Victimization Perspective
• Part III: Witnesses and Expert Testimony
• Child Witnesses: Lying about Something Heard
• Instructions and Suggestions: Effects on the Amount of Details in Children’s Statements
• Changes in Subtle Hand/Finger Movements During Attempted Deception
• The Effects of Distraction on Police Officer Shooting Behavior
• Paralinguistic and Nonverbal Triggers of Biased Credibility Assessments of Rape Victims in Dutch Police Officers: An Experimental Study of “Nonevidentiary” Bias
• Psychological Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Issues on the Basis of Case Related Field Experiments
• Some Aspects of the Role of the Expert in Criminal Cases
• Part IV: Juries and Tribunals
• Models in Jury Decision-Making
• Formal Pattern in Jury Decision Making
• Inquisitorial Jury Selection through Scientific Support
• Influence of the Prosecutor’s Plea on the Judge’s Sentencing in Sexual Crimes: Hypothesis of the Theory of Anchoring by Tversky and Kahneman
• An Enquiry into Judicial Decisions
• Is the Judge’s Role to be Reformulated? A Socio-Psychological Approach to Office and Practice
• Part V: Child Development and Delinquency
• Delinquency Prevention in the First Few Years of Life
• Self-Reported Delinquency in Spain and Castilla-La Mancha: A Comparison of National and Subnational Samples
• Adoption and Murder
• A Descriptive Preliminary Study of the Long Term Effects of Divorce on the Psychological Adjustment Process of Children
• Custodian’s Gender and Disorders in the Psychical Development of Children
• Part VI: Psychological Factors Related to Crime
• Mental Illness and Criminality: A Study of a Sample of Psychiatric Out-Patients
• Outcome Expectancies: An Important Link between Substance Use and Crime?
• Socio-Cognitive Skills and Female Crime: A Study of Institutionalized Women Offenders
• An Empirical Approach to Offender Profiling
• The Criminal Psychologist: Between Tradition and Utopia
• Part VII: Drug Addiction Interventions
• Drug Addiction Among Inmates
• Addiction and Criminal Background in Rehabilitation Centers for Drug and Alcohol Abuser Clientele
• Drug Addiction Intervention Programmes Using Agonists and Antagonists Opiates in Catalonian Prisons
• A Therapeutic Community for Incarcerated Drug Offenders: Three Years in the Specialised Attention Department (DAE) of Quatre Camins Penitentiary Centre
• Part VIII: Correctional Treatment and Prison Initiatives
• Children Imprisoned With Their Mothers: Psychological Implications
• Organizational Assessment of a Prison
• Prison and Feelings: Suicide Attempts
• Therapy Motivation in Prisons: Towards a Specific Construct for the Motivation to Enter Psychotherapy for Prison Inmates
• The Treatment of Aggressive Prisoners. A Closed Regime Programme
• Organization Program of the Barcelona Women’s Prison: Six Years of Evaluation
• Part IX: Correctional Evaluation
• Methodological Advances in the Assessment of Correctional Programs
• Young Offenders and Alcohol: Relative Merits of Institutions and Community Prevention Initiatives
• Methodological Issues in the Meta-Evaluation of Correctional Treatment
• What Works in Correctional Rehabilitation in Europe: A Meta-Analytical Review
• Epilogue
• Psychology, Law and Europe: Current Developments and Problems
• Subject Index