Legal and Criminological Psychology

Understanding behaviors and thoughts of criminals can be the key in a criminal investigations but this is also fundamental in prevention of crime. Figure out patterns of behavior and offenders thought processes can give the law officers a much needed advantage. This is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions, and reactions of criminals and all that partakes in the criminal behavior. Access from the psychological side can tell us what initiates criminal behavior, how criminals react to punitive measures psychologically and what happens in their mind when they are again free. Of course, we have to mention the psychological profiling of criminals as a way to prevent them in further unlawful activities.

We will start from the first step in contact with offenders- investigations. Psychology can provide useful decision support tools to facilitate the investigation processes and help investigators to give more appropriate decisions. Then we will be studying Terror Management and criminal ability for empathy in Chapter 2. This study showed that it is true that mortality salience increases the tendency for individuals to judge criminal defendants harshly, especially defendants from a racial group different than the perceiver. Another important aspect of this scientific field is the psychology of the victim but also the perception of criminals in publicStudy of the investigation in the Chapter 3. was to provide the possible mediating role of associations with criminal friends between criminal attitudes, and criminal behavior. Thus results suggest that the presence and influence of criminal friends has a significant mediating effect on the interaction between criminal attitudes and recidivistic behavior.

As always, we turned our attention to the children, and the effects of that suffer from violent and criminal behavior in Chapters 4 and 5. Accuracy of eyewitness’s identifications is the subject of Chapter 6. This is certainly a requirement which produces a large amount of stress for witnesses. How to help them, without suppressing the rights of suspects? This study discuss the extent to which double-blind lineup administration has been adopted among police jurisdictions in the United States and address common concerns about implementing a double-blind standard.

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