NCJ Number
171507
Editor(s)
G Davies,
S Lloyd-Bostock,
M McMurran,
C Wilson
Date Published
1996
Length
625 pages
Annotation
This collection of papers provides a comprehensive review of the interface between law and psychology.
Abstract
The papers in this volume were drawn from the Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, held at Oxford in 1992. It features more than 60 contributions from internationally known researchers from Europe, North America and Australasia. The contributions have been grouped into the following themes: (1) Eyewitness Testimony; (2) Interviewing; (3) Children in the Legal System; (4) Legal Decision Making; (5) Perceptions and Reactions to Criminality; (6) Correlates of Offending; (7) Prevention and Treatment of Offending; (8) Prison Psychology; and (9) European Perspectives on Law and Psychology. The major categories include papers on such topics as the perceived credibility of rape victims, the "authenticity error" in real lineup procedures, detecting fact from fallacy in child and adult witness accounts, expert evidence in child sexual abuse criminal cases, family dynamics in child custody cases, drug offenses, gender differences, jury research, and rehabilitation. Tables, references, figures, notes, index