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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- International Perspectives on Psychology and Law: An Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I General Perspectives -- Psychology and Law: Overtures, Crescendos, and Reprises -- Psychological Contributions to Criminology: Perspectives of a Law Scientist -- Psychological Contributions to the Explanation, Prevention and Treatment of Offending -- Part II Explanation of Offending and Assessment of Offenders -- Applying Chaos Theory to Delinquent Behavior in Psychosocial Stress Situations -- Resilience in Juveniles With High Risk of Delinquency -- Violation of Rules as a Reaction to Declining Living Standards Among Workers and Intellectuals -- What Constitutes Reckless Driving? A Psychological Study of Motor Vehicle Following Distances -- Between Doing Harm and Breaking the Law: A Social-Psychological Perspective -- Drug Use Prevalence Among Offenders -- Using Psychological Tests in the Forensic Assessment of Offenders -- Profiles of Incarcerated Offenders Convicted of Rape and Indecent Assault: An Exploratory Study -- Part III Treatment and Prevention of Offending -- The Effect of Treatment on Juvenile Delinquents: Results from Meta-Analysis -- Intervention in Persistent Criminality in Children -- Some Things Do Work: Psychological Interventions With Offenders and the Effectiveness Debate -- Therapy Versus Penalty: An Evaluation Study -- The Treatment of Mentally Disordered Offenders in Canada -- General Prevention: Criminological and Psychological Problems -- Part IV Psychological Research on the Police -- Psychologists and the Police -- Predictors of Suspect and Interviewer Behaviour During Police Questioning -- Perceived Credibility of the Communicator: Studies of Perceptual Bias in Police Officers Conducting Rape Interviews -- Police Officers' Beliefs About Cues Associated With Deception in Rape Cases -- Police-Citizen Interaction and Nonverbal Communication: The Impact of Culturally Determined Smiling and Gestures -- The Effect of the Right to Silence on the Prosecution and Conviction of Criminal Suspects -- Part V Research on Witness Testimony -- Influencing Public Policy on Eyewitnessing: Problems and Possibilities -- Comparison of One-Person and Many-Person Lineups: A Warning Against Unsafe Practices -- The Influence of Eyewitness Observation and Photographic Presentation on the Identification of Persons in Lineups -- The Generation of Misinformation -- Effects of Detailed Imagery on Simulated Witness Recall -- Racial and Gender Issues in Facial Recognition -- Eyewitness Memory and Time of Day -- "Phenomenal Causality" in Eyewitness Report -- Deception Detection and Reality Monitoring: A New Answer to an Old Question? -- Part VI Children as Witnesses and Victims in the Justice System -- The Truth in Content Analyses of a Child's Testimony -- The Credibility of Children as Witnesses and the Social Denial of the Incestuous Abuse of Children -- Injustice to Children and Families in Child Abuse Cases -- Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: Psychological Implications of Legal Procedures -- Child Witnesses in British Courts -- Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases: The Juridical Situation in Germany -- Children's Evidence in Child Abuse Proceedings under the Israeli Legal System: The Law of Evidence Revision -- Official Ideals and Current Practice in Work With Child Witnesses in Sexual Abuse Cases in Norway -- Juridical Situation of Child Witnesses in Canada -- Some Areas of Interface Between Psychology and the Guardian Ad Litem Programs in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Settings -- Part VII Juridical Procedures and Decision-Making -- Methodological Issues in Research on Legal Decision-Making, With Special Reference to Experimental Simulations -- Justification and Goals of Punishment and the Attribution of Responsibility in Judges -- Verdicts of Psychosocially Biased Juries -- Psychometric Evaluation of Two Scales Assessing Fitness to Stand Trial -- Beyond the Ultimate Issue -- Part VIII Forensic Psychology in Civil Law -- The Child in the European Legal System -- Diagnostic Judgment on Parental Custody as a Decision-Making Process -- Fire-Setting: Age Trends and Psychometrical Diagnosis of Competency Criteria for Liability -- The Legislation of Organ Donation -- Jung's Psychology Adopted in Law -- Part IX History and Development of Legal Psychology in Different Countries -- Highlights of the History of Forensic Psychology in Germany -- On the Development of Psychologically Oriented Legal Thinking in German Speaking Countries -- Psychology and Law in Spain -- Law and Psychology in Italy -- Psychology and Law in Poland -- Subject Index