Psychology and Criminal Justice : : International Review of Theory and Practice. A Publication of the European Association of Psychology and Law / / ed. by Iván Münnich, János Boros, Márton Szegedi.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©1998
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Publications of the European Association of Psychology and Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 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
  • 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