A Critical Look at the Conceptual Models Explaining Drug Use and Crime

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Introduction XIII
4. Contributors XVII
5. Part I Eyewitness Testimony
6. The Perceived Credibility of Rape Victims During a Police Interview: An Experiment among Victim Assistance Workers 3
7. The Perceived Truthfulness of Children's and Adults' Testimony: the Oath versus the Competency Test 13
8. The Relation between Consistency and Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony 21
9. The "Authenticity Error" in Real Lineup Procedures. Effects of Suspect-Status and Corresponding Psychological Dissimilarities between Target Person and Distractors: An Experimental Study 29
10. Misinformation Methodologies: Explaining the Effects of Errant Information 39
11. Previous Knowledge and Delay in the Recall of Filmed Events 46
12. Effects of Preparation on Internal and External Memories 56
13. Experimentally Induced Person Mix-ups Through Media Exposure and Ways to Avoid Them 64
14. Detecting Fact from Fallacy in Child and Adult Witness Accounts 74
15. Is There Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? Causal Illusions in Children and Adults 81
16. Part II Interviewing
17. From Denial to Admission in Police Questioning of Suspects 91
18. Good Practice for Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Use in Criminal Proceedings 100
19. Information Enhancement and Credibility Assessment of Child Statements: The Impact of the Cognitive Interview Technique on Criteria-Based Content Analysis 118
20. Enhancing Children's Eyewitness Testimony with the Cognitive Interview 127
21. An Empirical Test of the Mnemonic Components of the Cognitive Interview 135
22. The Cognitive Interview - Does it Work? 146
23. Part III Children in the Legal System
24. The Development of Children's Understanding of Legal Principles 157
25. Psychological Evaluation of Changes in Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles 160
26. Expert Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Cases in Canada and the United States 170
27. Children's Disclosure of Secrets: Implications for Interviewing 181
28. Three Dogmas Applied to Child Victims of Sexual Abuse: The Danish Perspective 188
29. Sexual Knowledge and Behavior of Children up to 12 Years - What is Age-appropriate? 198
30. Sex, Lies and Video Tape 216
31. Detection of False Statements in First and Third Graders: The Development of a Nonverbal Detection Instrument 221
32. The Analysis of Family Dynamics in Child Custody Cases 231
33. The Factors Neutralizing Development Disorders in Children from Broken Families 240
34. Bullying or Peer Abuse in School: Intervention and Prevention 248
35. Part IV Legal Decision Making
36. Anchored Narratives: a Theory of Judicial Reasoning, and its Consequences 267
37. Psychosocial Investigation in Death Penalty Mitigation: Procedures, Pitfalls and Impact 286
38. Attitude and Behavior of Male and Female Judges Concerning the Punishment of Offenders 296
39. Predicting Court Sentences: A Perilous Exercise 305
40. Communication Channels and Gender Differences in Decoding and Integration of Cues in Legal Decision-Making 314
41. Juror Decision-Making and the Trial Process 327
42. From Juror to Jury Decision Making: A Non-Model Approach 337
43. The Influence of the Size and Decision Rule in Jury Decision-Making 344
44. The Jury in the United Kingdom: Juries and Jury Research in Context 349
45. Part V Perceptions and Reactions to Criminality
46. Coping with Burglary: The Effects of a Police Service on Victims' Emotional Readjustment 363
47. Reactions to Criminal Victimization: A Field Study of the Cognitive Effects on Victims and Members of Their Social Network 374
48. The Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Assault in Canada 384
49. Social Beliefs About Recidivism in Crime 394
50. Law and Psychology in the Perception of Crime Seriousness: Towards a Joint Approach 401
51. Part VI Correlates of Offending
52. Deviance or Resilience? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents in Residential Care 409
53. Psychosocial Influences on the Development of Antisocial Personality 424
54. A Critical Look at the Conceptual Models Explaining Drug Use and Crime 445
55. Part VII Prevention and Treatment of Offending
56. Absence from School: Research and Practical Management 459
57. The Prevention of Delinquency in Spain 463
58. The Social Competence of Young Offenders: A Return to Basics 469
59. A Model for the Treatment of Young Offenders in Spain: Searching for Effectiveness 478
60. Short and Long Term Outcomes for a Cognitive- Behavioral Anger Management Program 485
61. Psychological Disturbance in the Scottish Prison System: A Preliminary Account 495
62. Correctional Programmes in Europe: A Pilot Study for a Meta-Evaluation 510
63. Mental Health Interventions in Pretrial Jails 520
64. Offender Categories in the Hungarian Prison System 532
65. What Recent Meta-Evaluations Tell us About the Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment 537
66. Part VIII Prison Psychology
67. Psychological Services to the Finnish Prison Administration 557
68. Prison Service Psychology - England and Wales 560
69. Organization of the Psychiatry and Psychology Services in Italian Prisons 563
70. Therapy within Prison: Opportunities and Problems 568
71. The Psychiatric and Psychological Services Within the Norwegian Prison Health Service 573
72. Part IX European Perspectives on Law and Psychology
73. Psychological Testing and Police Recruit Selection: Difficulties and Dilemmas 579
74. Psychological Issues in the Draft Polish Code of Criminal Procedure 585
75. Judicial Psychology in Spain: Actuation and Limits of Intervention 591
76. Legal Psychology in Spain: Reflections on its Short History 598
77. Subject Index 603