Psychology and Law
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Psychology and Law

International Perspectives

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Psychology and Law

International Perspectives

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110137255
eBook ISBN
9783110879773
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. International Perspectives on Psychology and Law: An Introduction
  2. Contributors
  3. Part I: General Perspectives
  4. Psychology and Law: Overtures, Crescendos, and Reprises
  5. Psychological Contributions to Criminology: Perspectives of a Law Scientist
  6. Psychological Contributions to the Explanation, Prevention, and Treatment of Offending
  7. Part II: Explanation of Offending and Assessment of Offenders
  8. Applying Chaos Theory to Delinquent Behavior in Psychosocial Stress Situations
  9. Resilience in Juveniles With High Risk of Delinquency
  10. Violation of Rules as a Reaction to Declining Living Standards Among Workers and Intellectuals
  11. What Constitutes Reckless Driving? A Psychological Study of Motor Vehicle Following Distances
  12. Between Doing Harm and Breaking the Law: A Social-Psychological Perspective
  13. Drug Use Prevalence Among Offenders
  14. Using Psychological Tests in the Forensic Assessment of Offenders
  15. Profiles of Incarcerated Offenders Convicted of Rape and Indecent Assault: An Exploratory Study
  16. Part III: Treatment and Prevention of Offending
  17. The Effect of Treatment on Juvenile Delinquents: Results from Meta-Analysis
  18. Intervention in Persistent Criminality in Children
  19. Some Things Do Work: Psychological Interventions With Offenders and the Effectiveness Debate
  20. Therapy Versus Penalty: An Evaluation Study
  21. The Treatment of Mentally Disordered Offenders in Canada
  22. General Prevention: Criminological and Psychological Problems
  23. Part IV: Psychological Research on the Police
  24. Psychologists and the Police
  25. Predictors of Suspect and Interviewer Behaviour During Police Questioning
  26. Perceived Credibility of the Communicator: Studies of Perceptual Bias in Police Officers Conducting Rape Interviews
  27. Police Officers' Beliefs About Cues Associated With Deception in Rape Cases
  28. Police-Citizen Interaction and Nonverbal Communication: The Impact of Culturally Determined Smiling and Gestures
  29. The Effect of the Right to Silence on the Prosecution and Conviction of Criminal Suspects
  30. Part V: Research on Witness Testimony
  31. Influencing Public Policy on Eyewitnessing: Problems and Possibilities
  32. Comparison of One-Person and Many-Person Lineups: A Warning Against Unsafe Practices
  33. The Influence of Eyewitness Observation and Photographic Presentation on the Identification of Persons in Lineups
  34. The Generation of Misinformation
  35. Effects of Detailed Imagery on Simulated Witness Recall
  36. Racial and Gender Issues in Facial Recognition
  37. Eyewitness Memory and Time of Day
  38. Phenomenal Causality in Eyewitness Report
  39. Deception Detection and Reality Monitoring: A New Answer to an Old Question?
  40. Part VI: Children as Witnesses and Victims in the Justice System
  41. The Truth in Content Analyses of a Child's Testimony
  42. The Credibility of Children as Witnesses and the Social Denial of the Incestuous Abuse of Children
  43. Injustice to Children and Families in Child Abuse Cases
  44. Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: Psychological Implications of Legal Procedures
  45. Child Witnesses in British Courts
  46. Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: The Juridical Situation in Germany
  47. Children's Evidence in Child Abuse Proceedings under the Israeli Legal System: The Law of Evidence Revision
  48. Official Ideals and Current Practice in Work With Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases in Norway
  49. Juridical Situation of Child Witnesses in Canada
  50. Some Areas of Interface Between Psychology and the Guardian Ad Litem Programs in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Settings
  51. Part VII: Juridical Procedures and Decision-Making
  52. Methodological Issues in Research on Legal Decision-Making, With Special Reference to Experimental Simulations
  53. Justification and Goals of Punishment and the Attribution of Responsibility in Judges
  54. Verdicts of Psychosocially Biased Juries
  55. Psychometric Evaluation of Two Scales Assessing Fitness to Stand Trial
  56. Beyond the Ultimate Issue
  57. Part VIII: Forensic Psychology in Civil Law
  58. The Child in the European Legal System
  59. Diagnostic Judgment on Parental Custody as a Decision-Making Process
  60. Fire-Setting: Age Trends and Psychometrical Diagnosis of Competency Criteria for Liability
  61. The Legislation of Organ Donation
  62. Jung's Psychology Adopted in Law
  63. Part IX: History and Development of Legal Psychology in Different Countries
  64. Highlights of the History of Forensic Psychology in Germany
  65. On the Development of Psychologically Oriented Legal Thinking in German Speaking Countries
  66. Psychology and Law in Spain
  67. Law and Psychology in Italy
  68. Psychology and Law in Poland
  69. Subject Index