Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

SbC subjects usually have significant others in their lives, although these others are often part of the prob- lem. Outstanding ...

a separate penal form. Their use has continued to increase over the past several decades, and there are now tens of thousands of ...

mentally ill likely results from the fact that some men- tally disturbed prisoners engage in disruptive behavior that prison off ...

harshness of the conditions, exclusionary orders that exempted certain categories of prisoners from such confinement, but a conc ...

791 TENDERYEARSDOCTRINE The tender years doctrine, or the practice of awarding infants and young children to mothers in custody ...

of the past. As recently as 1989, a Florida appeals court, in DeCamp v. Hein, applied a maternal prefer- ence in the case of a c ...

provided with attorneys. In other states, parents must hire attorneys privately. Usually, each caregiver has his or her own atto ...

a regional child protection agency’s contracted relation- ship with specific consultants/evaluators, or through an ex parte moti ...

context, and the cultural context of cases. It facilitates the use of logic and reasoning in the integration of evaluation data. ...

to American national security. Understanding the causes, motivations, and determinants of terrorist behavior poses an enormous c ...

United Kingdom, Quintan Wiktorowicz outlines a four-part, developmental process based on social movement theory. Although each m ...

thwarting tomorrow’s terrorists is at least as critical as understanding extremists of the past and the present. There are three ...

ground that it was the product of undue influenceon the testator exerted by a family member or a third party. As TC represents a ...

consulting with attorneys about clients with question- able capacity, contemporaneous clinical evaluations of TC prior to will e ...

been an absence of conceptual and empirical research in this area. Specifically, there is a need for cognitive and neuropsycholo ...

low sensitivity score was the dementia group. Even these individuals still obtained a score of greater than 92% on Trial 2. The ...

disorders. However, these communities have func- tioned well in correctional settings and seem to be well designed to serve the ...

their partners and are less likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors, including trading sex for money. Participants who are hi ...

It suggests that all things being equal, the law should be constructed in such a way as to enhance the therapeutic potential of ...

and implement the principles of TJ in courts of general jurisdiction. An excellent example is a manual pro- duced by Canada’s Na ...