Introduction -- Contributors -- Part I: Law and Psychology in Different Countries -- Law and Psychology in Europe: Current Status and Future Perspectives -- Psychology and Law in Latin America. State of the Art -- Criminological and Legal Psychology in Portugal: Past, Present and Future -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Policies, Practices and Public Opinion -- Psychological Aspects of the Family Law Reform and the Influences in Legislation after the German Unification -- Part II: Victimology -- Criminal Behavior and the Pre-Victimization Process: Three Studies on Neutralization, Redefinition, and Desensitization -- Criminal Victimization and Well-Being: A Prospective Study on the Direct and Buffering Effects of Personality Traits -- Victimological Aspects of Computer Crimes -- Victimization in Close Relationships: On the Darkness of "Dark Figures" -- The Victim's Experience and Fear of Crime. A Contribution to the Victimization Perspective -- Part III: Witnesses and Expert Testimony -- Child Witnesses: Lying about Something Heard -- Instructions and Suggestions: Effects on the Amount of Details in Children's Statements -- Changes in Subtle Hand/Finger Movements During Attempted Deception -- The Effects of Distraction on Police Officer Shooting Behavior -- Paralinguistic and Nonverbal Triggers of Biased Credibility Assessments of Rape Victims in Dutch Police Officers: An Experimental Study of "Nonevidentiary" Bias -- Psychological Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Issues on the Basis of Case Related Field Experiments -- Some Aspects of the Role of the Expert in Criminal Cases -- Part IV: Juries and Tribunals -- Models in Jury Decision-Making -- Formal Pattern in Jury Decision Making -- Inquisitorial Jury Selection through Scientific Support.

Influence of the Prosecutor's Plea on the Judge's Sentencing in Sexual Crimes: Hypothesis of the Theory of Anchoring by Tversky and Kahneman -- An Enquiry into Judicial Decisions -- Is the Judge's Role to be Reformulated? A Socio-Psychological Approach to Office and Practice -- Part V: Child Development and Delinquency -- Delinquency Prevention in the First Few Years of Life -- Self-Reported Delinquency in Spain and Castilla-La Mancha: A Comparison of National and Subnational Samples -- Adoption and Murder -- A Descriptive Preliminary Study of the Long Term Effects of Divorce on the Psychological Adjustment Process of Children -- Custodian's Gender and Disorders in the Psychical Development of Children -- Part VI: Psychological Factors Related to Crime -- Mental Illness and Criminality: A Study of a Sample of Psychiatric Out-Patients -- Outcome Expectancies: An Important Link between Substance Use and Crime? -- Socio-Cognitive Skills and Female Crime: A Study of Institutionalized Women Offenders -- An Empirical Approach to Offender Profiling -- The Criminal Psychologist: Between Tradition and Utopia -- Part VII: Drug Addiction Interventions -- Drug Addiction Among Inmates -- Addiction and Criminal Background in Rehabilitation Centers for Drug and Alcohol Abuser Clientele -- Drug Addiction Intervention Programmes Using Agonists and Antagonists Opiates in Catalonian Prisons -- A Therapeutic Community for Incarcerated Drug Offenders: Three Years in the Specialised Attention Department (DAE) of Quatre Camins Penitentiary Centre -- Part VIII: Correctional Treatment and Prison Initiatives -- Children Imprisoned With Their Mothers: Psychological Implications -- Organizational Assessment of a Prison -- Prison and Feelings: Suicide Attempts.

Therapy Motivation in Prisons: Towards a Specific Construct for the Motivation to Enter Psychotherapy for Prison Inmates -- The Treatment of Aggressive Prisoners. A Closed Regime Programme -- Organization Program of the Barcelona Women's Prison: Six Years of Evaluation -- Part IX: Correctional Evaluation -- Methodological Advances in the Assessment of Correctional Programs -- Young Offenders and Alcohol: Relative Merits of Institutions and Community Prevention Initiatives -- Methodological Issues in the Meta-Evaluation of Correctional Treatment -- What Works in Correctional Rehabilitation in Europe: A Meta-Analytical Review -- Epilogue -- Psychology, Law and Europe: Current Developments and Problems -- Subject Index.