Psychology and Law in a Changing World New Trends in Theory, Practice and Research
Coordonnateurs : Bagnoli Lara, Traverso Giovanni B.
Criminal psychology, and its relationship to the practice of law, has become a topic of major significance over the last three decades. Psychologists play a key role in modern criminal investigation and are central to crime reduction measures such as offender profiling, delinquency prevention and tackling fear of crime. Contributors from North America, Europe and Australia examine this link, both adding to and drawing upon the pool of recent theory construction and empirical work in the following areas:
* causes and prevention of offending
* studies of crime and offenders
* the victim's perspective
* witnesses and testimony
* studies of legal processes.
These issues are studied from a 'local' perspective that recognises not only the need for cross-national comparative research, but also the generation of a corpus of scientific knowledge more representative of the complexity of criminal and legal investigation today.
Date de parution : 06-2001
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Psychology and Law in a Changing World :
Mots-clés :
cognitive; interview; therapeutic; jurisprudence; juvenile; court; restorative; justice; approaches; offenders; Young Men; General Population Respondents; Social Information Processing; West Germany; Antisocial Behavior; Psychoactive Substance Users; Hostility Bias; Mental Reinstatement; Reinstatement Instructions; Juvenile Delinquents; Therapeutic Jurisprudence; Violating; Restorative Justice; Restorative Justice Approaches; Polygraph Examination; Incarceration Sentence; Restitution Sentence; Judge’s Instructions; Cognitive Interview Condition; Victim Offender Mediation; Montreal Longitudinal Experimental Study; Generalized Empathy Deficit; Mediation Programs; Head Injury; Abusive Alcohol Consumption