Preface -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Part I: Eyewitness Testimony -- The Perceived Credibility of Rape Victims During a Police Interview: An Experiment among Victim Assistance Workers -- The Perceived Truthfulness of Children's and Adults' Testimony: The Oath versus the Competency Test -- The Relation between Consistency and Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony -- The "Authenticity Error" in Real Lineup Procedures. Effects of Suspect-Status and Corresponding Psychological Dissimilarities between Target Person and Distractors: An Experimental Study -- Misinformation Methodologies: Explaining the Effects of Errant Information -- Previous Knowledge and Delay in the Recall of Filmed Events -- Effects of Preparation on Internal and External Memories -- Experimentally Induced Person Mix-ups Through Media Exposure and Ways to Avoid Them -- Detecting Fact from Fallacy in Child and Adult Witness Accounts -- Is There Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? Causal Illusions in Children and Adults -- Part II: Interviewing -- From Denial to Admission in Police Questioning of Suspects -- Good Practice for Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Use in Criminal Proceedings -- Information Enhancement and Credibility Assessment of Child Statements: The Impact of the Cognitive Interview Technique on Criteria-Based Content Analysis -- Enhancing Children's Eyewitness Testimony with the Cognitive Interview -- An Empirical Test of the Mnemonic Components of the Cognitive Interview -- The Cognitive Interview - Does it Work? -- Part III: Children in the Legal System -- The Development of Children's Understanding of Legal Principles -- Psychological Evaluation of Changes in Testimony Given by Sexually Abused Juveniles -- Expert Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Cases in Canada and the United States.

Children's Disclosure of Secrets: Implications for Interviewing -- Three Dogmas Applied to Child Victims of Sexual Abuse: The Danish Perspective -- Sexual Knowledge and Behavior of Children up to 12 Years- What is Age-Appropriate? -- Sex, Lies and Video Tape -- Detection of False Statements in First and Third Graders: The Development of a Nonverbal Detection Instrument -- The Analysis of Family Dynamics in Child Custody Cases -- The Factors Neutralizing Development Disorders in Children from Broken Families -- Bullying or Peer Abuse in School: Intervention and Prevention -- Part IV: Legal Decision Making -- Anchored Narratives: A Theory of Judicial Reasoning and its Consequences -- Psychosocial Investigation in Death Penalty Mitigation: Procedures, Pitfalls and Impact -- Attitude and Behavior of Male and Female Judges Concerning the Punishment of Offenders -- Predicting Court Sentences: A Perilous Exercise -- Communication Channels and Gender Differences in Decoding and Integration of Cues in Legal Decision-Making -- Juror Decision-Making and the Trial Process -- From Juror to Jury Decision Making: A Non-Model Approach -- The Influence of the Size and Decision Rule in Jury Decision-Making -- The Jury in the United Kingdom: Juries and Jury Research in Context -- Part V: Perceptions and Reactions to Criminality -- Coping with Burglary : The Effects of a Police Service on Victims' Emotional Readjustment -- Reactions to Criminal Victimization: A Field Study of the Cognitive Effects on Victims and Members of Their Social Network -- The Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Assault in Canada -- Social Beliefs about Recidivism in Crime -- Law and Psychology in the Perception of Crime Seriousness: Towards a Joint Approach -- Part VI: Correlates of Offending -- Deviance or Resilience? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents in Residential Care.

Psychosocial Influences on the Development of Antisocial Personality -- A Critical Look at the Conceptual Models Explaining Drug Use and Crime -- Part VII: Prevention and Treatment of Offending -- Absence from School: Research and Practical Management -- The Prevention of Delinquency in Spain -- The Social Competence of Young Offenders: A Return to Basics -- A Model for the Treatment of Young Offenders in Spain: Searching for Effectiveness -- Short and Long Term Outcomes for a Cognitive-Behavioral Anger Management Program -- Psychological Disturbance in the Scottish Prison System: A Preliminary Account -- Correctional Programmes in Europe: A Pilot Study for a Meta-Evaluation -- Mental Health Interventions in Pretrial Jails -- Offender Categories in the Hungarian Prison System -- What Recent Meta-Evaluations Tell us About the Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment -- Part VIII: Prison Psychology -- Psychological Services to the Finnish Prison Administration -- Prison Service Psychology - England and Wales -- The Organization of the Psychiatry and Psychology Services in Italian Prisons -- Therapy within Prison: Opportunities and Problems -- The Psychiatric and Psychological Services Within the Norwegian Prison Health Service -- Part IX: European Perspectives on Law and Psychology -- Psychological Testing and Police Recruit Selection: Difficulties and Dilemmas -- Psychological Issues in the Draft Polish Code of Criminal Procedure -- Judicial Psychology in Spain: Actuation and Limits of Intervention -- Legal Psychology in Spain: Reflections on its Short History -- Subject Index.