Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

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Parole Decisions
Presentence Evaluations
Prison Overcrowding
Probation Decisions
Public Opinion About Sentencing
and Incarceration
Sentencing Decisions
Sentencing Diversion Programs
Stanford Prison Experiment
Substance Abuse Treatment
Suicide Assessment and Prevention in Prisons
Suicide Assessment Manual for Inmates (SAMI)
Supermax Prisons
Therapeutic Communities for Treatment of
Substance Abuse
Treatment and Release of Insanity Acquittees

Symptoms and Disorders
Relevant to Forensic Assessment

Antisocial Personality Disorder
Automatism
Battered Woman Syndrome
Child Maltreatment
Child Sexual Abuse
Conduct Disorder
Delusions
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Hallucinations
Malingering
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Assessment of
Mood Disorders
Pedophilia
Personality Disorders
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Psychopathy
Psychotic Disorders
Substance Use Disorders

Trial Processes

Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances in
Capital Trials, Effects on Jurors
Alibi Witnesses
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Amicus Curiae Briefs
Bail-Setting Decisions

Battered Woman Syndrome, Testimony on
Chicago Jury Project
Children’s Testimony
Children’s Testimony, Evaluation by Juries
Complex Evidence in Litigation
Confession Evidence
CSIEffect
Damage Awards
Death Qualification of Juries
Domestic Violence Courts
Drug Courts
“Dynamite Charge”
Elderly Defendants
Expert Psychological Testimony
Expert Psychological Testimony, Admissibility
Standards
Expert Psychological Testimony, Forms of
Expert Psychological Testimony on Eyewitness
Identification
Expert Testimony, Qualifications of Experts
Fingerprint Evidence, Evaluation of
Hearsay Testimony
Inadmissible Evidence, Impact on Juries
Insanity Defense, Juries and
Judges’ Nonverbal Behavior
Juries and Eyewitnesses
Juries and Joined Trials
Juries and Judges’ Instructions
Jury Administration Reforms
Jury Competence
Jury Decisions Versus Judges’ Decisions
Jury Deliberation
Jury Nullification
Jury Questionnaires
Jury Reforms
Jury Selection
Jury Size and Decision Rule
Jury Understanding of Judges’ Instructions
in Capital Cases
Legal Authoritarianism
Legal Negotiation
Legal Socialization
Leniency Bias
Litigation Stress
Mental Health Courts
Parole Decisions
Plea Bargaining

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