Psychological Contributions to Criminology: Perspectives of a Law Scientist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. International Perspectives on Psychology and Law: An Introduction VII
4. Contents XIX
5. Contributors XXV
6. Part I General Perspectives
7. Psychology and Law: Overtures, Crescendos, and Reprises 3
8. Psychological Contributions to Criminology: Perspectives of a Law Scientist 22
9. Psychological Contributions to the Explanation, Prevention and Treatment of Offending 35
10. Part II Explanation of Offending and Assessment of Offenders
11. Applying Chaos Theory to Delinquent Behavior in Psychosocial Stress Situations 55
12. Resilience in Juveniles With High Risk of Delinquency 62
13. Violation of Rules as a Reaction to Declining Living Standards Among Workers and Intellectuals 76
14. What Constitutes Reckless Driving? A Psychological Study of Motor Vehicle Following Distances 86
15. Between Doing Harm and Breaking the Law: A Social-Psychological Perspective 95
16. Drug Use Prevalence Among Offenders 105
17. Using Psychological Tests in the Forensic Assessment of Offenders 111
18. Profiles of Incarcerated Offenders Convicted of Rape and Indecent Assault: An Exploratory Study 121
19. Part III Treatment and Prevention of Offending
20. The Effect of Treatment on Juvenile Delinquents: Results from Meta-Analysis 131
21. Intervention in Persistent Criminality in Children 144
22. Some Things Do Work: Psychological Interventions With Offenders and the Effectiveness Debate 163
23. Therapy Versus Penalty: An Evaluation Study 175
24. The Treatment of Mentally Disordered Offenders in Canada 182
25. General Prevention: Criminological and Psychological Problems 193
26. Part IV Psychological Research on the Police
27. Psychologists and the Police 205
28. Predictors of Suspect and Interviewer Behaviour During Police Questioning 212
29. Perceived Credibility of the Communicator: Studies of Perceptual Bias in Police Officers Conducting Rape Interviews 219
30. Police Officers' Beliefs About Cues Associated With Deception in Rape Cases 234
31. Police-Citizen Interaction and Nonverbal Communication: The Impact of Culturally Determined Smiling and Gestures 240
32. The Effect of the Right to Silence on the Prosecution and Conviction of Criminal Suspects 253
33. Part V Research on Witness Testimony
34. Influencing Public Policy on Eyewitnessing: Problems and Possibilities 265
35. Comparison of One-Person and Many-Person Lineups: A Warning Against Unsafe Practices 275
36. The Influence of Eyewitness Observation and Photographic Presentation on the Identification of Persons in Lineups 286
37. The Generation of Misinformation 292
38. Effects of Detailed Imagery on Simulated Witness Recall 302
39. Racial and Gender Issues in Facial Recognition 309
40. Eyewitness Memory and Time of Day 317
41. "Phenomenal Causality" in Eyewitness Report 321
42. Deception Detection and Reality Monitoring: A New Answer to an Old Question? 328
43. Part VI Children as Witnesses and Victims in the Justice System
44. The Truth in Content Analyses of a Child's Testimony 335
45. The Credibility of Children as Witnesses and the Social Denial of the Incestuous Abuse of Children 345
46. Injustice to Children and Families in Child Abuse Cases 352
47. Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: Psychological Implications of Legal Procedures 360
48. Child Witnesses in British Courts 365
49. Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: The Juridical Situation in Germany 374
50. Children's Evidence in Child Abuse Proceedings under the Israeli Legal System: The Law of Evidence Revision 385
51. Official Ideals and Current Practice in Work With Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases in Norway 393
52. Juridical Situation of Child Witnesses in Canada 399
53. Some Areas of Interface Between Psychology and the Guardian Ad Litem Programs in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Settings 404
54. Part VII Juridical Procedures and Decision-Making
55. Methodological Issues in Research on Legal Decision-Making, With Special Reference to Experimental Simulations 413
56. Justification and Goals of Punishment and the Attribution of Responsibility in Judges 424
57. Verdicts of Psychosocially Biased Juries 435
58. Psychometric Evaluation of Two Scales Assessing Fitness to Stand Trial 440
59. Beyond the Ultimate Issue 447
60. Part VIII Forensic Psychology in Civil Law
61. The Child in the European Legal System 467
62. Diagnostic Judgment on Parental Custody as a Decision-Making Process 473
63. Fire-Setting: Age Trends and Psychometrical Diagnosis of Competency Criteria for Liability 477
64. The Legislation of Organ Donation 491
65. Jung's Psychology Adopted in Law 500
66. Part IX History and Development of Legal Psychology in Different Countries
67. Highlights of the History of Forensic Psychology in Germany 509
68. On the Development of Psychologically Oriented Legal Thinking in German Speaking Countries 519
69. Psychology and Law in Spain 526
70. Law and Psychology in Italy 535
71. Psychology and Law in Poland 546
72. Subject Index 555