NCJ Number
148224
Editor(s)
F Losel,
D Bender,
T Bliesener
Date Published
1992
Length
581 pages
Annotation
Presentations at the Second European Conference on Law and Psychology highlighted psychological perspectives in criminological research, intervention against criminality, psychology and the police, psychological aspects of civil law, legal psychology in Eastern and Southern Europe, and historical aspects of legal psychology.
Abstract
The first part of the compilation of selected conference presentations provides an introduction to the development of legal psychology. The second part presents more specific, theoretical, and empirical contributions that explain offending and assess offenders. Subsequent parts contain articles on the treatment and prevention of offending, psychological research on the police, witness testimony, children as witnesses and victims in the justice system, juridical procedures and decisionmaking, and forensic psychology in civil law. The final part examines the history and development of legal psychology in different European countries. Topics currently being researched by psychologists are noted, including causes of criminal behavior, judicial decisionmaking, the reliability of eyewitness testimony, sentencing factors, police-citizen interaction, drunk driving, child abuse, tax evasion, effects of punishment and correctional treatment, violence prediction, legal norms, and deterrence. General trends emerging in the field of legal psychology are reviewed. References, tables, and figures