Psychology and law international perspectives / ed. by F. Losel, D. Bender & T. Bliesener.

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 1992.

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Criminal psychology -- Congresses.

Psychology -- Congresses.

Part I: General perspectives

Psychology and law: overtures, crescendos, reprises / F. Lösel

Psychological contributions to criminology: perspectives of a law scientist/ G. Kaiser

Psychological contributions to the explanation, prevention, and treatment of offending / D. P. Farrington

Part II: Explanation of Offending and assessment of offenders

Applying chaos theory to delinquent behaviour in psychosocial stress situations / T. Fabian and M. Stadler

Resilience in juveniles with high risk of delinquency / T. Bliesener and F. Lösel

Violation of rules as a reaction to declining living standards among workers and intellectuals / W. Wosinska

What constitutes reckless driving? A psychological study of motor vehicle following distances / G. F. Wagstaff

Between doing harm and breaking the law: a social-psychological perspective / M. Pietras

Drug use prevalence among offenders / S. Brochu, L. Desjardins, A. Douyon, and C. Forget

Using psychological tests in the forensic assessment of offenders / E. Littmann

Profiles of incarcerated offenders convicted of rape and indecent assault: an exploratory study / Lu Chan C.-C.

Part III: Treatment and prevention of offending

The effect of treatment on juvenile delinquents: results from meta-analysis / M. W. Lipsey

Intervention in persistent criminality in children / D. A. Lane

Some things do work: psychological interventions with offenders and the effectiveness debate / J. McGuire and P. Priestly

Therapy versus penalty: an evaluation study / R. Egg

The treatment of mentally disordered offenders in Canada / S. Hodgins

General prevention: criminological and psychological problems / D. Dolling

Part IV: Psychological research on the police

Psychologists and the police / J. C. Yuille

Predictors of suspect and interviewer behaviour during police questioning / S. J. Moston and G. M . Stephenson

Perceived credibility of the communicator: studies of perceptual bias in police officers conducting rape interviews / F. W. Winkel and L. Koppelaar

Police officers' beliefs about cues associated with deceiption in rape cases / L. Greuel

Police-citizen interaction and nonverbal communication: the impact of culturally determined smiling and gestures / A. Vrij and F. W. Winkel

The effect of the right to silence on the prosecution and conviction of criminal suspects / G. M. Stephenson and S. J. Moston

Part V: Research on witness testimony

Influencing public policy on eyewitnessing: problems and possibilities / G. Davies

Comparision of one-person and many-person lineups: a warning against unsafe practices / W. A. Wagenaar and N. Veefkind

The influence of eyewitness observations and photographic presentation on the identification of persons in lineups / M. Stadler, H. Schindler, and T. Fabian

The generation of misinformation / H. G. Hoffman, E. F. Loftus, C. N. Greenmum, and R. L. Dashiell

Effects of detailed imagery on simulated witness recall / D. A. Bekerian, J. L. Dennett, K. Hill, and R. Hitchcock

Racial and gender issues in facial recognition / N. L. Jalbert and J. Getting

Eyewitness memory and time of day / M. Diges, M. E. Rubio, and M. C. Rodriguez

Phenomenal causality in eyewitness report / K. Dahmen-Zimmer and M. Kraus

Deception detection and reality monitoring: a new answer to an old question? / M. L. Alonso-Quecuty

Part VI: Children as witnesses and victims in the justice system

The truth in content analyses of a child's testimony / D. A. Bekerian and J. L. Dennett

The credibility of children as witnesses and the social denial of the incestuous abuse of children / H. E. M. Baartman

Injustice to children and families in child abuse cases / D. Howitt

Child witnesses in sexual abuse cases: psychological implications of legal procedures / M. Steller

Child witnesses in British courts / R. H. Flin

Child witnesses in sexual abuse cases: the juridical situation in Germany / R. Volbert

Children's evidence in child abuse proceedings under the Israeli legal system: the law of evidence revision / T. Morag

Official ideals and current practice in work with child witnesses in sexual abuse cases in Norway / T. Havik

Juridical situation of child witnesses in Canada

Some areas of interface between psychology and the Guardian Ad Litem programs in juvenile and domesic relations settings / S. B. McPherson

Part VII: Juridical procedures and decision-making

Methodological issues in research on legal decision-making, with special reference to experimental simulations / V. J. Konečni and E. B. Ebbesen

Justification and goals of punishment and the attribution of responsibility in judges / M. E. Oswald

Verdicts of psychosocially biased juries / R. Arce, J. Sobral, and F. Fariña

Psychometric evaluation of two scales assessing fitness to stand trial / R. M. Bagby and R. Nicholson

Beyond the ultimate issue / D. Carson

Part VIII: Forensic psychology in civil law

The child in the European legal system / A. Kühne

Diagnostic judgment on parental custody as a decision-making process / M. L. Kluck

Fire-setting: age trends and psychometrical diagnosis of competency criteria for liability / W. Hommers

The legislation of organ donation / D. J. Hessing, H. Elffers, and F. T. de Charro

Jung's psychology adopted in law / M. Usteri and G. Baur

Part IX: History and development of legal psychology in different countries

Highlights of the history of forensic psychology in Germany / U. Undeutsch

On the development of psychologically oriented legal thinking in German speaking countries / R. Jakob

Psychology and law in Spain / V. Garrido and S. Redondo

Law and psychology in Italy / G. B. Traverso and P. Manna

Psychology and law in Poland / J. M. Stanik.

Selected contributions to the Second European Conference on Law and Psychology.

"A publication of the European Association of Psychology and Law" (facing tp.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9783110137255

xxviii, 557 p.