Criminal Behavior and the Justice System

Algebraic Schemes in Legal Psychology
10 Decision-Making and the Law: A View from the Grid
- Grid Arguments
- The Set Up
- What Legal Decision-Making Is Not
- "A View from the Grid"
- Other Issues That Could Be Grist for the Grid
11 Decision Processes in the Jury Room
- The Chicago Studies
- The Oxford Studies
- The Yale Studies
- The Studies at the London School of Economics
- Discussion
12 Perseverance in Courtroom Decisions
- Situational Effects on Judicial Judgmental Processes
- Empirical Support for Perseverance Effects
- Studies of Information Processing and Judgment in Judicial Situations Involving Equivocal Evidence
- Concluding Remarks
13 Attractiveness and Respectability of the Offender as Factors in the Evaluation of Criminal Cases
- Respectability and Attractiveness as Extralegal Factors
- Extralegal Factors: Additional Considerations
- Relationship Between Causal Attributions and Sentencing
- Three Eyewitness Testimony: Introduction
14 The Perception of Social Events and Behavior Sequences
- What Does the Person Perceive?
- Concluding Remarks
15 Remembering Social Events and Activities
- Overview and Introduction
- Social Cognition Research
- Scripts
- Reality Monitoring
16 Distortions in Eyewitness Memory from Postevent Information
- Past Work
- Detection of Discrepancies
- New Evidence for Discrepancy Detection
- Fate of Memory
- The Blending of Memories
17 Collaborative Testimony by Police Officers: A Psycho-legal Issue
- Background to the Studies
- Dyadic Confidence and the Role of Implicational Errors
- Remembering in Dyads and Groups: Social Direction and Control
- Groups, the Police and Conventional Recall
- Group Over-confidence Examined
- Conclusions: The Propriety of Collaborative Testimony
18 Behavioral Correlates of Statement Credibility: Theories, Paradigms, and Results
- Basic Concepts and Research Approaches to Witness Psychology
- Theoretical Approaches to Credibility Assessment
- Research Paradigms and Procedures
- Correlates of Credibility: Empirical Results
- Judgments of Credibility: Empirical Results
- Suggestions for Procedural Modifications in Future Research
19 Assessing Credibility of Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Polygraph Examinations and Statement Analysis
- Polygraph Techniques
- Statement Analysis
- Concluding Remarks
20 Verbal and Visual Processes in Person Identification
- Verbal and Visual Processes Within an Integrative Framework of Eyewitness Testimony
- Verbal and Visual Processes at the Perceptual Phase
- Verbal and Visual Processes at the Retention Phase
- Verbal and Visual Processes at the Retrieval Phase
- Conclusions
- Four Correctional Treatment: Clinical and Organizational Aspects: Introduction
21 Evaluation Research on Correctional Treatment in West Germany: A Meta-analysis
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
22 Treatment of Young Remand Prisoners: Problems and Results of a Research Project
- The Situation in Pretrial Detention
- The Present Study
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
23 Influencing Juvenile Offenders by Way of Alternative Sanctions in Community Settings
- The Development of Juvenile Delinquency
- Backgrounds in Juvenile Delinquency
- Reactions to Juvenile Criminality
- Viewpoints on Vandalism: The Existing Theories
- Initiating the Development of a Differentiated Theory of Vandalism
- The Need for a Differentiated Approach by Policymakers
- Untapped Possibilities for a Differentiated Approach
- Prevention: The Crowning Piece of the Differentiated Approach
24 Relations Between General Attitudes and Personality Traits of Prison Officers and Some Specific Attitudes Towards Prisoners
- Subjects and Methods
- Results
- Discussion of Results
25 Psychology in Prison: Role Assessment and Testing of an Organizational Model
- Conceptual Framing
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Author Index