Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

male. Second, sloppy police work such as failing to fingerprint the steering wheel led to lower guilt rat- ings. The defense was ...

SENTENCINGDECISIONS The sentencing decision is typically the last court deci- sion made in a case. This decision has attracted t ...

legal factors and to promote predictability, consis- tency, transparency, and accountability in sentencing. For example, in the ...

in the English system similarly reports that, for offenses of similar levels of seriousness or for similar types of offenders, s ...

the volume of PMIs involved in the criminal justice sys- tem and the associated problems (e.g., behavioral prob- lems while inca ...

are also less adversarial and less formal than tradi- tional criminal court processing. In mental health courts, often, defendan ...

divertees spent more days in the community than in jail, received a higher number of treatment services, and showed improved men ...

Demographics Men are responsible for the vast majority of crimes committed worldwide. An even greater percentage of men engage i ...

homicide is more often motivated by sexual fantasies and desires. Having said this, the relationship between serial murder and s ...

instrumental-affective dimensional approach in which instrumental and affective motives for serial murder are allowed to coexist ...

addressed in the later section on risk assessment because their unchangeable nature means they are unlikely to form the basis of ...

There are no fully standardized phallometric assess- ment packages, but several procedural, instrumenta- tion, and interpretatio ...

actuarial method eliminates human judgment about the selection of relevant assessment information and about how to combine that ...

systems are the most appropriate way to select and combine individual assessment findings to make deci- sions about sex offender ...

diagnosed as a disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,fourth edition, text revision (DSM-I ...

of child sexual abuse are substantiated each year. In addition, according to the 2005 National Crime Victimization survey, there ...

reconviction rates of registered and unregistered sex offenders. About 3% of registered sex offenders were convicted of a new se ...

offenders are re-arrested for new sex crimes within a 3- to 6-year follow-up period. Longer follow-up studies have found that af ...

Levenson, J. S., & D’Amora, D. (2007). Social policies designed to prevent sexual violence: The emperor’s new clothes? Crimi ...

An important limitation of the study flows from this data having been collected retrospectively, with every- one involved knowin ...