Psychology and criminal justice : international review of theory and practice
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Psychology and criminal justice : international review of theory and practice
（Publications of the European Association of Psychology and Law）
Walter de Gruyter, 1998
Available at 6 libraries
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Papers presented at the 5th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, held in Budapest in 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume offers a selection of the lectures delivered at the 1995 EAPL Conference in Budapest. The chapters demonstrate current results in the research and practice of judicial psychology. The findings are useful both for researchers and practising psychologists and address the most significant areas of judicial psychology: the problems of witness testimony; the psychological aspect of decision making in the court; the characteristics and treatment of offenders; the psychological impacts of prisons on prisoners; victimization; crime and public; and the history and prospects of this relatively new and complex science. For the first time the European Association of Psychology and Law organized its conference in a country of central-eastern Europe; consequently, this volume contains several articles on the scientific findings of psychologists working in the region.
Table of Contents
- 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 juvenile. Part 2 Cognitive interview and policy reaction: further perspectives in cognitive interview
- 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 confrontation with offenders as a result of physical effort
- police folklore and attributions of guilt. Part 3 Judicial decision-making: Sate of Ohio versus 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 jury decision rule
- juror's decision in capital cases
- parents fighting for custody of children. Part 4 Characteristics and therapy of offenders: boy's behavioral patterns in kindergarten predict male delinquency, withdrawal, and school adjustment
- assessing loss of self-control in violent offenses committed by juveniles
- social competence and socio-moral reasoning in young offenders
- feminist group therapy fro women who self-harm
- heterogeneity of the population of murders as the fundamental problem in psychological profiling of a perpetrator
- necrophilia
- are casual theories of paedophilia passible? expert psychological opinion for the court in cases of homicide under emotional strain in Poland
- the problem of depression's diagnostics 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
- 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 outpatients treatment
- 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 (Part contents).
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