Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

degree to which the crime was unexpected. Greater harm, greater potential harm, and greater unexpected- ness lead to higher rati ...

certain individuals (e.g., physicians, nurses, school teachers, mental health professionals) come across what they believe to be ...

period of 1991 to 1992; since that peak, the number of accusations has steadily declined. Many recovered memory cases appeared i ...

Another adverse effect is the development of new symptoms unrelated to the primary concern for which the patient went to the the ...

remember it; perhaps she simply did not want to tell the interviewers about it. Also complicating the picture, a more recent pro ...

See alsoFalse Memories; Forced Confabulation; Hypnosis and Eyewitness Memory; Reconstructive Memory; Repeated Recall; Test of Me ...

accuracy rates by forcing participants to make a fast identification were unsuccessful. Thus, it appears that the relatively sho ...

perpetrator and the defendant are indeed the same per- son. When eyewitness testimony is provided, the trier of fact must decide ...

See alsoExpert Psychological Testimony on Eyewitness Identification; Exposure Time and Eyewitness Memory; Eyewitness Memory; Mug ...

FFFFDDEE PPrroocceedduurreess Prior to the evaluation, the psychologist should request information concerning the evaluee from t ...

The evaluation report should include a listing of the data relied on for the evaluation. The officer’s his- tory should include ...

only the officer but his or her fellow officers and members of the public in danger. This makes essential the performance of the ...

feature of clinical judgment in terms of predictionis the lack of rules to integrate case information. Although this permits fle ...

weaknesses. Perhaps most important, the predictive properties of actuarial models tend to be optimized within the sample of deve ...

added to the final decision without introducing the problems associated with actuarial decision making. Jennifer A. A. Lavoie an ...

be central to Dangerousness, Sophistication-Maturity, and Treatment Amenability. Forensic diplomates were asked to provide ratin ...

Salekin, R. T., & Grimes, R. (2008). Clinical evaluations of juvenile offenders facing transfer to adult court. In R. Jackso ...

example, very large effect sizes were found for the role of hallucinations (Cohen’s d= 1.80) and delusions (Cohen’s d=3.15) in c ...

705 SCIENTIFICJURYSELECTION Scientific jury selection (SJS) is the use of a survey to decide which jurors to favor in a trial. P ...

admired, their level of trust in government and the establishment, and many demographic features such as age, sex, education, oc ...