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

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