Psychology and law: bridging the gap

Including international contributions from lawyers, psychologists, sociologists and criminologists, this important book captures contemporary attempts to build bridges between the two very different disciplines of law and psychology and to establish the true nature of the interaction between the two at an international level.

1. In the kingdom of the blind / David Canter -- 2. Contemporary challenges in investigative psychology : revisiting the Canter offender profiling equations / Donna Youngs -- 3. Lie detectors and the law : the use of the polygraph in Europe / Ewout H. Meijer and Peter J. van Koppen -- 6. Eyewitness research : theory and practice / Amina Memon -- 5. Identification in court / Andrew Roberts and David Ormerod -- 6. Profiling evidence in the courts / Ian Freckelton -- 7. Implications of heterogeneity among individuals with antisocial behaviour / Henrik Andershed and Anna-Karin Andershed -- 8. From crime to tort : criminal acts, civil liability, and the behavioral science / Daniel B. Kennedy and Jason R. Sakis -- 9. The consequences of prison life : notes on the new psychology of prison effects / Craig Haney -- 10. Psychopathy as an important forensic construct : past, present, and future / David J. Cooke -- 11. Key considerations and problems in assessing risk for violence / Michael R. Davis and James R. P. Ogloff -- 12. Computer-assisted violence risk assessment among people with mental disorder / John Monahan -- 13. Does the law use even a small portion of what legal psychology has to offer? / Viktoras Justickis -- 14. "They're an illusion to me now" : forensic ethics, sanism, and pretextuality / Michael L. Perlin.