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Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Part 1: Children as Witnesses -- Videotechnology and the Child Witness -- Explaining Conversation Rules as a Method to Reduce Suggestibility of the Child Witness -- Interviewing Children: The Importance of Omission Errors -- The Defence Mechanisms and the Deformations of the Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles -- Part 2: Cognitive Interview and Police Reaction -- Further Perspectives in Cognitive Interviewing: New Directions -- The Effects of the Cognitive Interview on Recall, Recognition and the Confidence/Accuracy Relationship -- Cognitive Interview: When Any Context Reinstatement Instruction is Successful -- Cognitive Interview: Confronting True and False Statements -- Perceptions of the Credibility and Evidential Value of Victim and Suspect Statements in Interviews -- Police Officers' Inadequate Impression Formation in Confrontations with Offenders as a Result of Physical Effort -- Police Folklore and Attributions of Guilt: Can Psychology Challenge Long Held Assumptions? -- Part 3: Judicial Decision-Making -- State of Ohio v. X: Science and Strategy in the Criminal Court -- Impact on Verdict of Gender Homogeneous Juries in a Case of Rape -- Judicial Decision Making: Information Processing and Judgements Given by Blind Subjects -- Polygraphs in Criminal Justice Systems: The Effect of Different Legal Cultures on the Use of Scientific Evidence -- The Jury Decision Rule: An Empirical Study of Four Methods -- Juror's Decision in Capital Cases -- Parents Fighting for Custody of Children -- Part 4: Characteristics and Therapy of Offenders -- Boys' Behavioral Patterns in Kindergarten Predict Male Delinquency, Withdrawal, and School Adjustment -- Assessing Loss of Self-Control in Violent Offences Committed by Juveniles -- Social Competence and Sociomoral Reasoning in Young Offenders.