Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

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Psychology of Criminal Behavior

AMBER Alert System
Battered Woman Syndrome
Battered Woman Syndrome, Testimony on
Bias Crimes
Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory
Child Maltreatment
Child Sexual Abuse
Classification of Violence Risk (COVR)
Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS)
Criminal Behavior, Theories of
Criminal Responsibility, Assessment of
Criminal Responsibility, Defenses and Standards
Cybercrime
Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI)
Elder Abuse
Elderly Defendants
Homicide, Psychology of
Intimate Partner Violence
MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study
Media Violence and Behavior
Obscenity
Pedophilia
Pornography, Effects of Exposure to
Psychological Autopsies
Public Opinion About Crime
Serial Killers
Sex Offender Civil Commitment
Sex Offender Community Notification (Megan’s
Laws)
Sex Offender Treatment
Sex Offender Typologies
Stalking
Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
Suicide by Cop
Terrorism
Therapeutic Communities for Treatment of
Substance Abuse
Treatment and Release of Insanity Acquittees
Victim-Offender Mediation With Juvenile Offenders

Psychology of Policing
and Investigations

Behavior Analysis Interview
Competency to Confess

Confession Evidence
Crisis and Hostage Negotiation
Critical Incidents
Detection of Deception: Cognitive Load
Detection of Deception: Event-Related Potentials
Detection of Deception: Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI)
Detection of Deception: Nonverbal Cues
Detection of Deception: Reality Monitoring
Detection of Deception: Use of Evidence in
Detection of Deception by Detection “Wizards”
Detection of Deception in Adults
Detection of Deception in Children
Detection of Deception in High-Stakes Liars
False Confessions
Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales
Interrogation of Suspects
Police as Eyewitnesses
Police Decision Making
Police Decision Making and Domestic Violence
Police Interaction With Mentally Ill Individuals
Police Occupational Socialization
Police Psychologists
Police Psychology
Police Selection
Police Stress
Police Training and Evaluation
Police Use of Force
Polygraph and Polygraph Techniques
Profiling
Public Opinion About the Polygraph
Reid Technique for Interrogations
Return-to-Work Evaluations
Statement Validity Assessment (SVA)
Suicide by Cop
Videotaping Confessions

Sentencing and Incarceration

Community Corrections
Competency to Be Sentenced
Conditional Release Programs
Death Penalty
Domestic Violence Courts
Drug Courts
Juvenile Boot Camps

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