Psychology, Law, and Criminal Justice

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Introduction
• Contributors
• Part I Eyewitness Testimony
  • The Perceived Credibility of Rape Victims During a Police Interview: An Experiment among Victim Assistance Workers
  • The Perceived Truthfulness of Children's and Adults' Testimony: the Oath versus the Competency Test
  • The Relation between Consistency and Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony
  • The "Authenticity Error" in Real Lineup Procedures. Effects of Suspect-Status and Corresponding Psychological Dissimilarities between Target Person and Distractors: An Experimental Study
  • Misinformation Methodologies: Explaining the Effects of Errant Information
  • Previous Knowledge and Delay in the Recall of Filmed Events
  • Effects of Preparation on Internal and External Memories
  • Experimentally Induced Person Mix-ups Through Media Exposure and Ways to Avoid Them
  • Detecting Fact from Fallacy in Child and Adult Witness Accounts
  • Is There Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? Causal Illusions in Children and Adults
• Part II Interviewing
  • From Denial to Admission in Police Questioning of Suspects
  • Good Practice for Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Use in Criminal Proceedings
  • Information Enhancement and Credibility Assessment of Child Statements: The Impact of the Cognitive Interview Technique on Criteria-Based Content Analysis
  • Enhancing Children's Eyewitness Testimony with the Cognitive Interview
  • An Empirical Test of the Mnemonic Components of the Cognitive Interview
  • The Cognitive Interview - Does it Work?
• Part III Children in the Legal System
  • The Development of Children's Understanding of Legal Principles
  • Psychological Evaluation of Changes in Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles
  • Expert Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Cases in Canada and the United States
  • Children's Disclosure of Secrets: Implications for Interviewing
  • Three Dogmas Applied to Child Victims of Sexual Abuse: The Danish Perspective
  • Sexual Knowledge and Behavior of Children up to 12 Years - What is Age-appropriate?
  • Sex, Lies and Video Tape
  • Detection of False Statements in First and Third Graders: The Development of a Nonverbal Detection Instrument
  • The Analysis of Family Dynamics in Child Custody Cases
  • The Factors Neutralizing Development Disorders in Children from Broken Families
  • Bullying or Peer Abuse in School: Intervention and Prevention
• Part IV Legal Decision Making
  • Anchored Narratives: a Theory of Judicial Reasoning, and its Consequences
  • Psychosocial Investigation in Death Penalty Mitigation: Procedures, Pitfalls and Impact
  • Attitude and Behavior of Male and Female Judges Concerning the Punishment of Offenders
  • Predicting Court Sentences: A Perilous Exercise
  • Communication Channels and Gender Differences in Decoding and Integration of Cues in Legal Decision-Making
  • Juror Decision-Making and the Trial Process
  • From Juror to Jury Decision Making: A Non-Model Approach
  • The Influence of the Size and Decision Rule in Jury Decision-Making
  • The Jury in the United Kingdom: Juries and Jury Research in Context
• Part V Perceptions and Reactions to Criminality
  • Coping with Burglary: The Effects of a Police Service on Victims' Emotional Readjustment
  • Reactions to Criminal Victimization: A Field Study of the Cognitive Effects on Victims and Members of Their Social Network
  • The Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Assault in Canada
  • Social Beliefs About Recidivism in Crime
  • Law and Psychology in the Perception of Crime Seriousness: Towards a Joint Approach
• Part VI Correlates of Offending
  • Deviance or Resilience? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents in Residential Care
  • Psychosocial Influences on the Development of Antisocial Personality
  • A Critical Look at the Conceptual Models Explaining Drug Use and Crime
• Part VII Prevention and Treatment of Offending
  • Absence from School: Research and Practical Management
  • The Prevention of Delinquency in Spain
  • The Social Competence of Young Offenders: A Return to Basics
  • A Model for the Treatment of Young Offenders in Spain: Searching for Effectiveness
  • Short and Long Term Outcomes for a Cognitive- Behavioral Anger Management Program
  • Psychological Disturbance in the Scottish Prison System: A Preliminary Account
  • Correctional Programmes in Europe: A Pilot Study for a Meta-Evaluation
  • Mental Health Interventions in Pretrial Jails
  • Offender Categories in the Hungarian Prison System
  • What Recent Meta-Evaluations Tell us About the Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
• Part VIII Prison Psychology
  • Psychological Services to the Finnish Prison Administration
  • Prison Service Psychology - England and Wales
  • Organization of the Psychiatry and Psychology Services in Italian Prisons
  • Therapy within Prison: Opportunities and Problems
  • The Psychiatric and Psychological Services Within the Norwegian Prison Health Service
• Part IX European Perspectives on Law and Psychology
  • Psychological Testing and Police Recruit Selection: Difficulties and Dilemmas
  • Psychological Issues in the Draft Polish Code of Criminal Procedure
  • Judicial Psychology in Spain: Actuation and Limits of Intervention
  • Legal Psychology in Spain: Reflections on its Short History
• Subject Index