Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

PSYCHOPATHY, TREATMENT OF The treatment of psychopathy is a controversial and underinvestigated area of study. Many researchers ...

equal concern, because few contemporary measures of psychopathy incorporate this feature, it is possible that newer indices may ...

predicting early termination or poor treatment perfor- mance rather than targets for intervention themselves. This is particular ...

See alsoConduct Disorder; Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (2nd edition) (PCL–R); Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Versio ...

Symptoms related to thought form include loose associations (jumping quickly from topic to topic), tan- gentiality (keeps wander ...

negative symptoms predominate presentation. This is followed after a period of months or even years by a period of acute exacerb ...

disorder. The delusions should occur in the absence of prominent mood symptoms and should not be the result of substance intoxic ...

of action of antipsychotic agents (e.g., phenothiazines, butyrophenones, thioxanthenes) was blockade of D 2 dopamine receptors. ...

Further Readings Jibson, M. D., Glick, I. D., & Tandon, R. (2004). Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Focus, 2,17– ...

the wrongfulness of certain acts. This model assumes that the public should determine what is and is not a crime or a serious cr ...

Stereotypes of specific offenses are widespread and influence (a) public responses as to how to control crime, (b) jurors’ inter ...

Smith, V. L. (1993). When prior knowledge and law collide: Helping jurors use the law. Law and Human Behavior, 17 (5), 507–536. ...

for free that law-abiding, low-income citizens cannot afford. The public is not well-informed about community- based sanctions. ...

which the severity of the sanction matches the sever- ity of the harm done and the culpability of the offender. Research shows t ...

public’s rehabilitation orientation and preference for probation for marijuana possession. Public leniency is shown in both hypo ...

Court and modest for other courts. Other courts tend to be rated lower than the police and similar to local schools and executiv ...

decisions and presumably more so than the lower courts. Early studies of public opinion about the lower courts focused on the in ...

Further Readings Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000). Gibson, J., Calderia, G., & Spence, L. K. (2003). Measuring attitudes tow ...

In these studies, when evidence that the defendant failed a polygraph test is introduced into the trial, it consistently has fai ...

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