Psychology and law
edited by David Canter, Rita Žukauskienė.
- England : Ashgate, 2008.
- 262p.
- (Psychology, crime, and law series) .
Table of contents: Chapter 1. In the kingdom of the blind Chapter 2. Contemporary challenges in investigative psychology : revisiting the canter offender profiling equations Chapter 3. Lie detectors and the law : the use of the polygraph in Europe Chapter 4. Eyewitness research : theory and practice Chapter 5. Identification in court Chapter 6. Profiling evidence in the courts Chapter 7. Implications of heterogeneity among individuals with antisocial behaviour Chapter 8. From crime to tort : criminal acts, civil liability, and the behavioral science Chapter 9. The consequences of prison life : notes on the new psychology of prison effects Chapter 10. Psychopathy as an important forensic construct : past, present, and future Chapter 11. Key considerations and problems in assessing risk for violence Chapter 12. Computer-assisted violence risk assessment among people with mental disorder Chapter 13. Does the law use even a small portion of what legal psychology has to offer? Chapter 14. 'They're an illusion to me now' : forensic ethics, sanism and pretextuality