The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Courts

ISBN-13: 9781138499386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Andreas Kapardis; David P. Farrington

Opis

This book brings together an international group of experts to discuss psychological and developmental approaches to crime, policing and the courts and represents the cutting edge of developmental criminology.

Spis treści

Introduction. Psychology, crime, policing and courts, Andreas Kapardis and David P. Farrington,  I. Crime and Antisocial Behaviour   1. The concentration of convictions in two generations of families, David P. Farrington and Rebecca V. Crago  2. Self-reported juvenile delinquency in three surveys over 38 years: A German study on the crime drop, Friedrich Losel, Doris Bender, Zara Sunkel and Mark Stemmler  3. What factors protect adolescent bullies from developing into criminal and violent offenders?, Maria M. Ttofi and David P. Farrington  4. Cyberbullying: Does parental online supervision and youngsters' willingness to report to an adult reduce the risk?, Anna C. Baldry, Anna Sorrentino and David P. Farrington  5. Violence risk: the actuarial illusion, David J. Cooke  6. The psychopath: Continuity or change? Stability of psychopathic traits and their predictors, Henriette Bergstrom, Adelle E. Forth and David P. Farrington  II. Policing and Detecting Deception  7. Questioning the interrogational practices of U.S. law-enforcement officers: Legal and psychological perspectives, David Walsh, Sean O'Callaghan and Rebecca Milne  8. Police interviews of sexually abused children: The state of the art in differentiating truthful and false accounts, Marilena Kyriakidou  9. Psychophysiological detection of deception: A review of detection methods, recent research and potential forensic applications, Gershon Ben-Shakhar  III. Courts and Sentencing  10. Wrongful convictions: Psychological and criminal justice system contributors, C. Ronald Huff   11. The English jury: Issues, concerns and future directions, Nicola Padfield  12. Extra-legal factors that impact on sentencing decisions, Andreas Kapardis  13.Reflections on sentencing in England and Wales, Nicola Padfield.

O autorze

Andreas Kapardis is Professor of Psychology and Law in the Department of Law, University of Cyprus. 

David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University