David Canter, Rita Zukauskiene

Psychology and Law (eBook, ePUB)

Bridging the Gap

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351907873
• Artikelnr.: 49377621

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.