Psychology and criminal justice Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Contributors
	Videotechnology and the Child Witness	3
	Explaining Conversation Rules as a Method to Reduce Suggestibility of the Child Witness	10
	Interviewing Children: The Importance of Omission Errors	20
	The Defence Mechanisms and the Deformations of the Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles	33
	Further Perspectives in Cognitive Interviewing: New Directions	47
	The Effects of the Cognitive Interview on Recall, Recognition and the Confidence/Accuracy Relationship	53
	Cognitive Interview: When Any Context Reinstatement Instruction is Successful	61
	Cognitive Interview: Confronting True and False Statements	67
	Perceptions of the Credibility and Evidential Value of Victim and Suspect Statements in Interviews	74
	Police Officers' Inadequate Impression Formation in Confrontations with Offenders as a Result of Physical Effort	82
	Police Folklore and Attributions of Guilt: Can Psychology Challenge Long Held Assumptions?	94
	State of Ohio v. X: Science and Strategy in the Criminal Court	103
	Impact on Verdict of Gender Homogeneous Juries in a Case of Rape	113
	Judicial Decision Making: Information Processing and Judgements Given by Blind Subjects	120
	Polygraphs in Criminal Justice Systems: The Effect of Different Legal Cultures on the Use of Scientific Evidence	130
	The Jury Decision Rule: An Empirical Study of Four Methods	152
	Juror's Decision in Capital Cases	160
	Parents Fighting for Custody of Children	188
	Boys' Behavioral Patterns in Kindergarten Predict Male Delinquency, Withdrawal, and School Adjustment	197
	Assessing Loss of Self-Control in Violent Offences Committed by Juveniles	212
	Social Competence and Sociomoral Reasoning in Young Offenders	222
	Feminist Group Therapy for Women Who Self-Harm	229
	Heterogeneity of Murders as the Fundamental Problem in the Psychological Profiling of a Perpetrator	237
	Necrophilia: Love at Last Sight	242
	Are Causal Theories of Paedophilia Possible? A Reconsideration of Sexual Abuse Cycles	248
	Expert Psychological Opinion for the Court in Cases of Homicide under Emotional Strain in Poland	254
	The Problem of Depression's Diagnostic in Forensic and Civil Law in Women	262
	Effects of Prison Factors on Recidivism	269
	Prison Between Values and Efficiency	278
	Symbolic Patterns in Prisoners' Thinking: Imported Values and Indigenous Roles?	287
	Allowing Male Convicted Prisoners to Wear Their Own Clothes: The Psychological Effects	293
	A Harm Reduction Approach to the Depenalization of Drug Crime via Community Based Outpatient Treatment	301
	Interplay of Religion, Medicine and Prison: A Preliminary Historical Study	310
	International Benchmarking	315
	Training of Prison Officers for Leading Problem-Oriented Groups of Inmates	319
	Riots in the Romanian Penitentiaries after the Revolution of December 1989	322
	Correctional Treatment in Portugal	327
	Terrorist Mentality	335
	Fear of Crime and Victimization	346
	The Social and Personal Influence of Positive Beliefs on Coping with Direct and Indirect Victimization	354
	Psychological Aspects of the Process of Victimization	366
	Victim-Offender Mediation in the Italian Juvenile Justice System: A First Attempt of Definition	377
	The Impact of Professional Roles on Subjective Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency	385
	Turning Heroes into Villains: The Role of Unconscious Transference in Media Crime Reporting	399
	Comparing Legal Cultures: Difficulties in the Cross-Cultural Applicability of Psychological Research Results	407
	Recent Changes of the Hungarian Legal System and Their Psychological Impact	411
	The Effects of the Guarantee System of Human Rights and Legality on the Delinquents	422
	Legal Psychology in Europe: Results of a Survey	428
	Difficulties Experienced in Conducting Research in Forensic Psychology	436
	The Development of Hungarian Forensic Psychology	441
	Subject Index	457