Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

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Overview

Including international contributions from lawyers, psychologists, sociologists and criminologists, this important book captures contemporary attempts to build bridges between the two very different disciplines of law and psychology and to establish the true nature of the interaction between the two at an international level.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781409491149
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 12/28/2012
Series: Psychology, Crime and Law
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

David Canter is Professor of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, UK. He is editor of the International Library of Psychology and the Offender Profiling series, and is one of the leading experts in the field of criminal profiling. Donna Youngs is Research Fellow at the International Centre for Investigative Psychology and Vice-President of the International Academy for Investigative Psychology. Rita Zukauskiene is Professor in the School of Psychology, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; In the kingdom of the blind, David Canter; Contemporary challenges in investigative psychology: revisiting the Canter offender profiling equations, Donna Youngs; Lie detectors and the law: the use of the polygraph in Europe, Ewout H. Meijer and Peter J. van Koppen; Eyewitness research: theory and practice, Amina Memon; Identification in court, Andrew Roberts and David Ormerod; Profiling evidence in the courts, Ian Freckleton; Implications of heterogeneity among individuals with antisocial behaviour, Henrik Andershed and Anna-Karin Andershed; From crime to tort: criminal acts civil liability and the behavioral science, Daniel B. Kennedy and Jason R. Sakis JD; The consequences of prison life: notes on the new psychology of prison effects, Craig Haney; Psychopathy as an important forensic construct: past, present and future, David J. Cooke; Key considerations and problems in assessing risk for violence, Michael R. Davis and James R.P. Ogloff; Computer-assisted violence risk assessment among people with mental disorder, John Monahan; Does the law use even a small proportion of what legal psychology has to offer? Viktoras Justickis; 'They're an illusion to me now': forensic ethics, sanism and pretextuality, Michael L. Perlin; Index.
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