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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:30:00 +0100 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1978 A round-up of December tweets from crimepsychblog New Journal Issues Women & Criminal Justice 20(4), articles on IPV, life sentences and risk http://retwt.me/1Qjtd Justice Qtrly 27(6), articles on transgender prisoners, gangs, social learning theory, self-control, in-reach http://is.gd/jtBjs Dec 10 issue of Learning & Individual Differences 21(1) has special section on education of children in detention http://retwt.me/1QjrH Violence Against Women 16(12), includes special section on false allegations of sexual assault http://retwt.me/1QceY See also: Law Journal of the Month – Oxford Journals offer free access to all content for one journal for one month http://retwt.me/1QcYq Deception and interviewing Scholarly articles: Thermal Imaging as a Lie Detection Tool at Airport... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4355521 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:09:32 +0100 4355521 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1977 A month’s worth of tweets in one post (I know, I know, but I’ve been away). New journal issues Free: J of Police & Criminal Psychology 25(2). All articles FREE ACCESS at the moment http://retwt.me/1PrUb Cambridge Journals offer FREE access to select papers in Psychological Medicine, incl some with forensic relevance http://retwt.me/1PwMb Some good stuff here & all free: Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology http://retwt.me/1PO2V Has been going since 2009 but new to me. Others: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Volume 26, Number 4 http://retwt.me/1PORx Journal of Family Violence, Volume 25, Number 8 http://retwt.me/1PORw Critical Criminology 18(4). Special Issue on Green Criminology. http://retwt.me/1PORt International Journal of Law and ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4189802 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:02:58 +0100 4189802 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1976 Discussion Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1694107 Abstract: “When serial killers go unseen: The case of Trevor Joseph Hardy” in Crime Media Culture http://ht.ly/2WO89 (via @Understanding Crime) CSI effect and criminals? New analysis suggests rapists are inconsistent in their forensic awareness http://is.gd/g5iZH New research in J. Personality & Soc Psych Emotion Guided Threat Detection: Expecting Guns Where There Are None http://is.gd/g5imo New in Psychol Science 21(10): alienated youth are more aggressive than others when they experience acute peer rejection. http://is.gd/g5hJH New: Confidence & Professional Judgment in Assessing Children’s Risk of Abuse, Research on Social Work Practice 20(6) http://is.gd/g5gY5 And finally: In Guardian Science: How juries are... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4096786 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:44:08 +0100 4096786 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1975 A reminder that there’s just five days left to get your hands on all Sage Journals’ content. Free trial giving full-text access to ALL Sage Journal content ends 15 Oct. Don’t miss out, register here: http://is.gd/eUubM New research New issue: The latest Journal Contemporary Criminal Justice [26(4)] is a special on criminal investigation, with articles on police procedures, confessions, offender profiling and more http://is.gd/fCkNU (and it’s free til 15/10 via http://is.gd/eUubM) Extraordinary new analysis calculates each US homicide costs public average $17.25m, average murderer costs $24m. http://retwt.me/1P8Zy New journal from APA: Psychology of Violence, coming 2011. Introductory issue online now http://bit.ly/PA-vio “Beyond Social Capital: Triad Organize... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4053207 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:33:26 +0100 4053207 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1974 New issues: J. Contemporary Criminal Justice 26(2) focuses on General Strain Theory http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/vol26/issue2/ Deviant Behavior 31(8) crime & solidarity, female prisoners, criminalisation of midwives http://is.gd/ftsGh Victims & Offenders: Volume 5 Issue 4 http://is.gd/ftsvr Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy 20(3) http://is.gd/ftsjo New articles: “When children commit atrocities in war”, Global Change, Peace & Security 22(3) http://is.gd/ftsro People with higher Need for Cognition are more accurate at classifying truthful & deceptive msgs J Exp Soc Psy 46(6) http://is.gd/fts8u New research on personality, cognitive ability & motivation of academic cheaters. In J Exp Psych: Applied, Vol 16(3) http://is.... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4002747 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:07:31 +0100 4002747 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1973 New issues: Law and Human Behavior 34(5) http://is.gd/fhQvR Recidivism risk, psychopathy, informants, quality of forensic examiners and more Criminal Justice Matters 81(1) Articles on pre-crime, masculinity & violence, probation, secure envts & more http://is.gd/fbBVC Psychology, Crime & Law 16(8) http://is.gd/fhQqp Articles on execution, prisoners, rape myths, child abuse, eyewitness testimony New research articles: Murder–suicide: A reaction to interpersonal crises. Forensic Science International 202(1-3) http://is.gd/fhQjP The role of perpetrator similarity in reactions toward innocent victims Eur J Soc Psy 40(6) http://is.gd/fhPZ3 Depressing. Detecting concealed information w/ reaction times: Validity & comparison w/ polygraph App Cog Psych 24(7) http://is.gd/fhPMW... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3983292 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:34:51 +0100 3983292 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1972 Oh dear, the automatic Twitter updates feature needs attention. Sigh. Meanwhile, here’s what I’ve been tweeting about: The most important tweet of the last two weeks was notification that Sage Pubs are offering FREE online access to their entire collection until October 15, 2010. Sage do this every year or so and it’s a great time to stock up new and classic research. Register here: http://is.gd/eUubM Once you’ve done that, check out new issues of the following Sage journals: Criminology & Criminal Justice 10(3) http://is.gd/eUL9d Violence Against Women 16(8). http://is.gd/eUL1T J. Research in Crime & Delinquency 47(3) http://is.gd/eUKUM Social & Legal Studies 19(3) http://is.gd/eUKBX. European J. Criminology 7(5) http://is.gd/eUKk4 Also out, the first... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3959847 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:56:55 +0100 3959847 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1971 Why Jessica Stern studies violence: Raped age 15; police investign over whn father said she "seemed to have forgotten it" http://is.gd/eJsBO # Workplace violence / terrorism: DoD releases report “Lessons Learned from Fort Hood.” http://is.gd/eJts3 # Video via @WRY999 Jim Fallon discusses Neuroscience of Murder & Aggression "Exploring the Mind of a Killer". Fascinating. http://is.gd/eJtWg # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3920476 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3920476 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1970 Discussions in Conference Calls. Linguistic analysis method 50-65% accuracy. SSRN via http://is.gd/eI0bA # New study On Violence Prevention And Intervention Employing Street Outreach Workers. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/198541.php # Press release (bad spelling), new book: Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment ed. by Gannon & Cortoni http://is.gd/eI0oX # RT @ResearchBlogs Links between animal cruelty and domestic violence http://goo.gl/fb/b8rO2 # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3913021 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3913021 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1969 New research: Turning a blind eye to double blind line-ups Wright et al in Applied Cog Psych 24: 849–867 http://is.gd/eCFs4 # New research: Effect of suspicion & liars' strategies on reality monitoring Gnisci, Caso & Vrij in App Cog Psy 24:762–773 http://is.gd/eCFyA # Call for papers now open for APLS, EAPL & ANZAPPL International Congress on Psych & Law, March 2-5th, 2011 in Miami FL http://is.gd/eCFVh # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3902690 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3902690 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1968 RT @ TheJuryExpert Slate interview with Innocence Project co-founder c/o @mindhacks http://bit.ly/dBE9Ws # RT @FPsych Guilty, Not Guilty, Not proven: Australian Research: http://bit.ly/aCaIp0 NB link direct to pdf # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899038 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3899038 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1967 RT@ TheJuryExpert Thoughts on how to use probability 4 courtroom persuasion from a statistician & a trial consultant http://bit.ly/bc1reL # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3890389 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3890389 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1966 RT@DrPetra Entire APCO 'Project Acumen' report on UK sex trafficking here http://bit.ly/9WVYm2 (Warning link takes you directly to PDF) # RT @TheJuryExpert Grime & Punishment: How Disgust Influences Moral, Social & Legal judgments (applied to courtroom) http://bit.ly/3iugDM # New issue: Behavioral Sciences & Law 28(4). Special issue on families, divorce, custody and parenting http://is.gd/eoVc7 # New research: Routine Online Activity & Internet Fraud Targeting in J.Research in Crime & Delinquency 47(3) http://is.gd/eoVXR # Important (rare) study on polygraph w/ UK sex offenders: leads to more admissions; case mgrs perceive increased risk http://is.gd/eoW4Q # And a new Canadian study on why sex offenders confess during police interrogation (no polygraph) http://i... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885051 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3885051 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1965 New article in press: If Brain Scans Really Detected Deception, Who Would Volunteer to be Scanned? J Forensic Sci http://is.gd/eiz2o # New issue: Child Abuse & Neglect 34(8) filicide, cyberpedocriminality, interviewing, CSA, and more http://is.gd/eizoe # New issue: J.Quant Criminology 26(3). sit-person interactn, conviction inheritance, stats, recidivism. 2 free articles. http://is.gd/eiGPH # New issue: Law & Human Behavior 34(4) Risk assessment, eyewitnesses, legal attitudes, juries, mentally ill inmates. http://is.gd/eiH5p # New issue: J. Criminal Justice 38(4). 500 page bumper issue with plenty of interest. http://is.gd/eiHkK # Lunar cycles influence crime? Research says not: http://is.gd/eiHDk. Yet more evidence in new article (J Crim Justice) http://is.gd/eiHw5 # New research:... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3868625 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3868625 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1964 New issue: Policing 4(3) http://is.gd/eh77W Special issue on trust and confidence in the police # New issue: Violence Against Women 16(9) Special issue in honour of Ellen Pence, researcher & advocate for battered women http://is.gd/ehajJ # New issue:Justice Quarterly 27(5) Articles: gangs, prison sexl assault, juvenile courts, clemency, community notification http://is.gd/eharb # New issue: J. Contemporary Crim Justice 26(3). Special issue on Crime, Crime Prevention, and Punishment in Schools. http://is.gd/ehaA2 # New article by Ruth Penfold-Mounce on macabre public fascination with the corpses of criminals in Mortality 15(3):250-265 http://is.gd/ehb1q # New issue: Police Practice & Research 11(4) Special issue on the Challenges of Policing and the Mentally Ill http://is.gd/ehbbO #... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3866815 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3866815 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1963 New research: Sexual Sadism and Recidivism Among Adult Male Sexual Offenders J. Consult&Clin Psy 78(4) http://is.gd/e8nga # New research in press: AMBER Alerts don't save abducted kids frm life-threatening sits http://is.gd/e8np7 Cf @bengoldacre http://is.gd/e8nt7 # New issue: Psychology Crime & Law 16(7) . 3 articles on sex offenders; plus interviewing, false memory, prisoners. http://is.gd/e8p7i # New issue: J. Offender Rehabilitation 49(6). Articles on drug testing, juveniles, animal therapy, faith-based progs. http://is.gd/e8pnn # New issue: Journal of Family Violence 25(7). http://springerlink.com/content/0885-7482/25/7/ # New issue: J. Police & Crim Psych 25(2). Articles incl mass murder, secondary trauma, expert testimony, authoritarianism http://is.gd/e8pDi # New re... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3843792 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3843792 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1962 How CSI Went Awry. From National Academies, a video about the National Research Council (NRC) report on forensic science http://is.gd/e75Ke # New on SSRN: Lineups and Eyewitness Identification (from Ann Rev Law & Soc Sci 2009) via Neuroethics & Law Blog http://is.gd/e7a6t # Violent Video Games as a Learning Tool? (Yes, but…) from @BrainBlogger http://is.gd/e7brG # New research: Rethinking intractable conflict. American Psychologist 65(4). http://is.gd/e7bKV. @BrainBlogger discusses: http://is.gd/e7bMx # New issue: Journal of Experimental Criminology 6(3). Deviancy training, RCTs, families, victimisation, recidivism. http://is.gd/e7itv # New research: FREE article in J. Exp Criminology 6(3) Community service better than imprisonment to reduce recidivism. http://is.gd/e7iB9 # ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3833360 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3833360 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1961 New issue of NIJ Journal Highlights 15th Anniversary of Violence Against Women Act (US) http://is.gd/e5vU7 # New issue: Psychology, Public Policy & Law 16(3) Aug 2010. Miranda rights, prison rape, psychopathy, research agenda http://is.gd/e5wOv # New research: Political violence & child adjustment in Northern Ireland, in Dev Psy 46(4): 827-841 http://is.gd/e5z2d # New research: Subtypes of partner violence perpetrators among male & female psych patients. J Abnormal Psy 119(3):563-574 http://is.gd/e5zae # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831099 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3831099 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1960 New issue: Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, Volume 13 Issue 3 2010 http://is.gd/dWzee # The Cultural Dynamics of Copycat Suicide by Alex Mesoudi, free access at PLoS1. http://is.gd/dWBDg # New Journal issue: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Volume 17 Issue 3 http://is.gd/dWHyM # New journal issue: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Volume 21 Issue 4 http://is.gd/dWHOC # Research from Chicago: "unstructured socializing" by teens increases likelihood of violent behavior http://is.gd/dWIz8 # New research: "Why don't we believe non-native speakers? The influence of accent on credibility" J. Exp Soc Psy http://is.gd/dWINO # New research: "Anger as a cue to truthfulness" Truth-tellers accused of wrong... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3808588 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3808588 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1959 The role of the third sector in work with offenders http://is.gd/dV9FZ [pdf]. HT to LSE Library Blog http://is.gd/dV9zi # http://www.statecrime.org "Acts committed, instigated or condoned by governments [are] under-acknowledged by academics" via @intute # Centre for Social Justice green paper on UK criminal justice & addiction treatment systems http://is.gd/dVaa8 HT LSE http://is.gd/dVacD # Research on public confidence in the Criminal Justice System. http://is.gd/dVao4 Ministry of Justice via @intute # An implementation study of the delivery of domestic abuse programmes in probation & prison services. http://is.gd/dVavO via @intute # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3807301 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3807301 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1958 Eye movements and deception? http://is.gd/dSIVA. Not NLP – a bit more complex than that (hopefully more accurate!). #deceptionblog # 1921 book on how to profile people.http://is.gd/dSJqb. HT to Bruce Schneier http://is.gd/dSJub # BBC radio broadcast on lying http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007gvhg #deceptionblog # New research: Higher Generalized Trust Predicts Lie Detection Ability http://spp.sagepub.com/content/1/3/274.abstract #deceptionblog # US security chiefs tricked in social networking experiment http://is.gd/dT4PP #deceptionblog #trust # No surprises asTurkish researchers develop profile of a thief: Low education, lack of skills, alcohol & drug addiction. http://is.gd/dTcNo # How police interviewers' influence strategies affect whether suspects from different cultur... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3805605 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3805605 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1957 It’s still hard to find the time to keep Crimepsychblog and the Deception Blog updated and I am not sure when (if ever) I will have the time to post as regularly as I used to. Meanwhile I’m still finding plenty of interesting links and papers so rather than waiting til I have time to blog about them properly (which will probably be never) I’m going to give Twitter a go. If I’ve configured the plugin correctly then there should be regular digests of the tweets posted to these blogs, so you can carry on watching here, or follow me at http://twitter.com/crimepsychblog. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3805606 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:09:42 +0100 3805606 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1953 Discussion Group Two books by John Olsson: Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics Forensic Linguistics: Second Edition (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2222515 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:50:24 +0100 2222515 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1951 The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU commented on the previous post about a conference they are hosting in April.  It sounds interesting and worth giving greater prominence to. Here’s what they posted: Forensic Science for the 21st Century: The National Academy of Sciences Report and Beyond The Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University will host an international conference on April 3-4, 2009, in Tempe, Ariz., on the future of forensic science, with special attention to the highly anticipated report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, “Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community.” In addition to experts from universities such as the University of California, Berkeley... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2094813 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0100 2094813 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1949 Discussion of who can catch a liar and some research on signs of lying. Part 2: New technologies and deception detection, particularly recent advances in the debate over fMRI but also some news about ERP-related deception detection. Part 3: It’s magic! Reporting on the little flurry of interest in understanding how magicians deceive us, with some lessons for how practiced liars might achieve the same effect. Part 4: When people lie in specific situations, from 911 calls to deception by the police. Part 5: Polygraphy, and some recent research on the psychophisiology of lying. Part 6: Kids’ lies, online lies and my deception book of the year. Blogging is likely to continue to be sporadic on both this and the other crimepsych blogs over the next few months as I try and finish the ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074033 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:36:06 +0100 2074033 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1944 It’s been a very long time since I’ve spotted an article in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law that I’ve wanted to read (is it just me or has it been incredibly dull over the last few issues?). But here’s one that sounds interesting, appears theoretically sound and of practical value: This paper contributes to the science of crowd dynamics and psychology by examining the social psychological processes related to the relative absence of “hooliganism” at the Finals of the 2004 Union Européenne de Football Association (UEFA) Football (Soccer) Championships in Portugal. Quantitative data from a structured observational study is integrated with data from a questionnaire survey of a group associated ubiquitously with ‘hooliganism’ – namely England fans. This a... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1945214 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:03:23 +0100 1945214 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1943 Once again Sage Journals is throwing its archive open - you can get free access to all Sage journals until 31 October if you register first. A great opportunity to stock up on articles in journals that you or your library don’t subscribe to. Can I, in particular, recommend you take a look at the latest issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior? It’s a special on “Pseudoscientific Policing Practices and Beliefs” pulled together by guest editor Brent Snook. Scott Lilienfeld and Kristin Landfield’s overview of science and pseudoscience is just ok (I don’t think it’s as good as it could be), but there are useful reviews (among others) of hypnosis in a legal setting (Graham Wagstaff), of detecting deception (Aldert Vrij), and of false confessions (Saul Kas... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853579 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:37:15 +0100 1853579 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1941 Despite the focus on psychological research in this blog, I find anthropological approaches fascinating too. Here’s a neat review of such approaches applied to the cross-cultural understanding of crime and criminality: The ambiguity of the concept of crime is evident in the two strands of anthropological research covered in this review. One strand, the anthropology of criminalization, explores how state authorities, media, and citizen discourse define particular groups and practices as criminal, with prejudicial consequences. Examples are drawn from research on peasant rebellion, colonialism, youth, and racially or ethnically marked urban poor. The other strand traces ethnographic work on more or less organized illegal and predatory activity: banditry, rustling, trafficking, street g... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1844661 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1844661 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1942 The latest issue of Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology [23(2)] is a Special Issue on Criminal Profiling edited by Craig Bennell. The issue contains several articles on the research basis for criminal profiling, its limitations and applications. In his introduction to the issue, Bennell explains that the papers touch on some of the …debates [that] are ongoing about what roles profilers should play in criminal investigations, how profiles should be constructed, delivered, and evaluated, whether the contributions made by profilers are valid and, if so, how, and whether there are new, potentially more productive approaches to profiling that could improve upon or even replace the methods that are currently being used. Though he rightly notes that it’s impossible to do the t... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1834595 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:29:11 +0100 1834595 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1940 The latest issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology (Volume 22 Issue 6, September 2008) is a special devoted to Basic and Applied Issues in Eyewitness Research, edited by Brian H. Bornstein, Christian A. Meissner. Published to mark the centenary of the publication of “On the Witness Stand” by Hugo Munsterburg, one of forensic psychology’s founding fathers, this issue contains a feast of articles by some of the top names in the field, and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in eyewitness psychology. The editors explain why the publication of Munsterberg’s text is worth marking: Hugo Munsterberg, who was one of the earliest researchers on eyewitness memory, is probably the first figure to advocate strongly for a wider reliance by the courts on psychologica... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1768871 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:48:43 +0100 1768871 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1938 This is the last time the recently advertised jobs round-up will be published on Psychology and Crime News. Job-seekers can register directly with Jobs.ac.uk to get updates on job opportunities in criminology and forensic psychology direct to their inbox. Other job hunting resources can be found here. Recently advertised jobs from the last 10 days: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Criminal Justice, School of Law, Kingston University (UK): Applications are invited for PhD research projects in Criminal Justice. Closing date: 4th September 2008 Research Assistant / Research Associate, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London: The successful applicant will be employed on a project with Merseyside Police on the application of data mining and other computational approach... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1746069 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:23:31 +0100 1746069 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1936 Via the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research: The SIPR [Scottish Institute for Policing Research] Evidence & Investigation Network and Grampian Police have organised a seminar exploring child witnesses and witnesses with learning disabilities. The audience will consist of academics, representatives from the police and the criminal justice system and members of the Scottish Executive. The free seminar will be held on 15 October in Aberdeen. Speakers include Dr Derek Carson (University of Abertay), Professor Amina Memon (University of Aberdeen) and Dr Penny Woolnough (Grampian Police). Register using the form here (pdf). (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1700682 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:47:33 +0100 1700682 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1933 One article in particular from the latest issue of European Journal of Criminology (Vol. 5, No. 3) caught my eye. Per-Olof H. Wikström and Robert Svensson report findings of a study to uncover why English youths are more violent than Swedish youths. At first glance it seems as if Wikstrom and Svensson are engaged in a circular argument: … we use data from the English Peterborough Youth Study and the Swedish Eskilstuna Youth Study. The findings show that in both cities (1) young people’s self-reported violent behaviour is predicted by crime propensity and lifestyle, and their interaction, and (2) a substantial proportion (40 percent) of the difference in the level of violence vanishes when taking into account national differences in young people’s crime propensity and lif... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1692146 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1692146 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1928 The latest issue of Psychology, Crime & Law (Volume 14 Issue 3) is one of those issues where almost all the articles look tempting. Given my particular interest in deception I’ll be starting with Granhag and Hartwig’s intriguing offering on mind-reading and deception detection, but the articles on how TV affects legal decision making and linking crimes in serial homicide will be next on the list. Here’s the line-up: What judges know about eyewitness testimony: A comparison of Norwegian and US judges (Svein Magnussen; Richard A. Wise; Abid Q. Raja; Martin A. Safer; Nell Pawlenko; Ulf Stridbeck) A new theoretical perspective on deception detection: On the psychology of instrumental mind-reading (Pär Anders Granhag; Maria Hartwig) Perceptions of children during a polic... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686210 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1686210 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1926 Details of opportunities for fellowship funding from the UK Research Councils: The cross-Council programme focuses on the nature and interactions of five global issues: conflict, crime, environmental degradation, poverty and terrorism, and their implications for various concepts and contexts of security and insecurity. Within this framework, this fellowship call focuses specifically on how ideas and beliefs of individuals, communities and nation states relate to these five global phenomena. Fellowship applications under this call must address one or more of the following key research areas: How do individuals and communities develop their ideas and beliefs about security and insecurity? Why do some ideas and beliefs lead to conflict, violence or criminal activity? What lessons can we lea... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1679355 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1679355 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1925 About once a year, Sage Journals kindly makes a set of their journals free to access for a trial period. Sage Journals in Psychology and Psychiatry are free access (on registration) from 1 August to 30 September 30. More details and registration instructions here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1676987 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1676987 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1935 Recently advertised jobs: Assistant/Associate Professor, Criminal Justice Department, Seattle University (Washington, USA) - closing date 1 October 2008 Department Faculty - MA Forensic Psychology - Research Methods, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Illinois, USA) - posted 11 July 2008, closing date not given. Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Closing date: 22 August 2008 Research Associate, Predict and Understand the Reasons behind Dangerous and Criminal Behaviour in Mentally Disordered Offenders, Cardiff University, UK - Closing date: 11 August 2008 Principal Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, London Metropolitan University, UK - Closing date for applications: 13 August 2008 Lecturer in Forensic and Investigative Psycholog... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1676988 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:10:34 +0100 1676988 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1924 The British Psychological Society has published guidelines on “latest evidence on human memory and how that evidence could be of use to the legal professions”. It’s a very handy overview prepared by experts in the field. As the principal authors Martin A. Conway and Emily A. Holmes explain in the introduction to the report: The guidelines and key points should then be taken as they are intended – as guidelines and not absolute statements. Because they are based on widely agreed and acknowledged scientific findings they provide a far more rigorously informed understanding of human memory than that available from commonly held beliefs. In this respect they give courts a much firmer basis for accurate decision-making. According to the press release (11 July): The report ha... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1674842 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:46:12 +0100 1674842 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1922 Yes indeed. The BBC News website today (30 July 2008) reports on some research on the way in which bees seek food which “could help detectives hunt down serial killers, scientists believe”. Here’s some more from the report: Just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says the University of London team. This “geographic profiling” works so well in bees, the scientists say future experiments on the animals could now be fed back to improve crime-solving. The team’s work is reported in the Royal Society journal Interface. “We’re really hopeful that we can improve the model for criminology,” Dr Nigel Raine, from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), told BBC News. Later the repo... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1668394 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:22:45 +0100 1668394 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1920 Some of the criminal justice-related reports that have caught my eye in the last few weeks: Communities Crime and Communities Review (UK, published 18 June, Cabinet Office): A major review examining how to better engage communities in the fight against crime and raise public confidence in the Criminal Justice System - link to pdf downloads. Gangs at the Grassroots: Community solutions to street violence (UK, published 17 July 2008, New Local Government Network) - pdf Investigations Witness and victim experience survey: early findings (UK, published 3 July 200, Ministry of Justice) - pdf Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims: A 21st Century Strategy (US, International Association of Chiefs of Police) - pdf (Hat tip Docuticker) First Response to Victims of Crime (US, published April ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1658125 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:32:01 +0100 1658125 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1914 On the third anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man shot dead by police in London who thought he was a suicide bomber, a timely and depressing article currently in press in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: Does Islamic appearance increase aggressive tendencies, and what role does affect play in such responses? In a computer game, participants made rapid decisions to shoot at armed people, some of whom wore Islamic head dress. We predicted and found a significant bias for participants to shoot more at Muslim targets. We also predicted and found that positive mood selectively increased aggressive tendencies towards Muslims, consistent with affect-cognition theories that predict a more top-down, stereotypical processing style in positive mood. In... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1642645 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1642645 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1918 Recently advertised jobs: Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, Community and Criminal Justice, De Montfort University. Closing date: 22 July Lecturer in Alcohol and Drug Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland. Closing date: 24 July Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of the West of England, Bristol. Closing date: 25 July 2008. Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University. Closing date: 13 August Photo credit: Khalilshah, Creative Commons License (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1639045 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:37:12 +0100 1639045 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1916 The latest issue of Policing (vol 2 no 2) is a special edition on Crime Science featuring in particular the work of the Jill Dando Institute at University College London . Contents include Ken Pease wondering How to Behave Like a Scientist? and articles on Mathematics, Physics, and Crime, Evolutionary Psychology and Fear of Crime, Crime Prevention Strategies, Forensic Geoscience, Vulnerable Localities, Mobile Phone Crime, Evaluating Crime Prevention and Technology and Policing. Two articles not part of the special edition on whether Northern Ireland is a model for Post-conflict Police Reform and on the Policing of Fraud. Abstracts and access to full text articles (subscription required) here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1637756 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:43:38 +0100 1637756 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1912 The August 2008 issue of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (Vol. 52, No. 4) is out, and contains (as usual) an interesting range of articles. Here’s one that will be of particlar interest to those interested in psychological profiling of offenders - the theory that particular types of offending behaviour may be associated with particular personality traits. In discussing a Differentiated Model of Offender Personality, Angela Pardue and Bruce A. Arrigo wisely steer clear of the tricky issue of whether the personality characteristics of unknown offenders can be inferred from behavioural and crime scene data (see Alison et al., 2002) but instead explore the relevance of classifying rapists to “effective diagnosis, treatment, and prevention&#8221... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1615978 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:54:22 +0100 1615978 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1910 Three articles of forensic interest in the June 2008 issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (Volume 14, Issue 2): Lineup composition, suspect position, and the sequential lineup advantage by Curt A. Carlson, Scott D. Gronlund and Steven E. Clark Forgetting the once-seen face: Estimating the strength of an eyewitness’s memory representation by Kenneth A. Deffenbacher, Brian H. Bornstein, E. Kiernan McGorty, and Steven D. Penrod Camera perspective bias in videotaped confessions: Evidence that visual attention is a mediator by Lezlee J. Ware, G. Daniel Lassiter, Stephen M. Patterson and Michael R. Ransom (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1582935 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1582935 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1909 Recently advertised jobs in the UK : Lecturer in Criminology, University of Brighton: In this exciting new role you will contribute to teaching on a range of modules as well as bring a specialism to complement or develop the existing portfolio of options at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level. A commitment to developing a research profile is also strongly encouraged. Closing date: 8 July 2008 Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies, University of Bradford: Criminal Justice Studies has been targeted as an area of growth within the University and we are seeking as applicant to play a key role in the expansion of teaching and research in this area. It is anticipated that you will have a background of research and refereed publications as well as experience of teaching at undergraduate... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1577287 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:49:49 +0100 1577287 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1907 The June/July issue of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Volume 31, Issue 3) is a special issue on psychopathic traits and risk assessment in children and adolescents, edited by Theo Doreleijers and Robert Vermeiren. A range of articles deals with identifying psychopathic traits, prediction of violence and risk assessment. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1554421 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:55:52 +0100 1554421 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1905 An article that caught my eye in the latest issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: Although there has been intense interest in the application of the construct of psychopathy among juveniles, few studies have investigated psychopathic traits among adolescent females. To redress this, this study examines psychopathic features and tests their utility in predicting violent behavior, theft, and drug abuse in a statewide survey of 94 female juvenile offenders. Results indicate that interpersonal and affective facets of psychopathy, specifically narcissism and carefree nonplanfulness were significantly associated with violence and theft. Psychopathy features were not significantly associated with drug abuse. Study limitations and implications for future research are delineated. I do lik... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1551339 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:20:47 +0100 1551339 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1904 Recently advertised jobs that might be of interest to forensic psychologists and/or criminologists: Lecturer in Criminology, University of Leicester. Closing date: 24 June Senior Lecturer in Criminal Psychology, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. Closing date: 27 June Senior Lecturer, Penology and Prisons, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. Closing date: 27 June Research Associate, Child Protection, Department of Educational Studies, University of Edinburgh. Closing date: 27 June Research Officer, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds. Closing date: 30 June Senior Lecturer/Lecturer In Criminology, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, University of the West Indies. Closing date: 15 July ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1537907 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1537907 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1902 Conclusions: The extent to which neuroimaging findings can be used as exculpatory or mitigating evidence remains the subject of much debate. Neuroimaging is just one piece of evidence the forensic expert relies on in determining the extent of neuropathology and mental illness. As illustrated in the case report, imaging studies most often will serve a mitigating role, affording the courts an opportunity to tailor punishment, provide court-ordered treatment, and potentially decrease recidivism. Reference David S. Husted, Wade C. Myers and Yuijin Lui (2008). The limited role of neuroimaging in determining criminal liability: An overview and case report. Forensic Science International 179(1): e9-e15 (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1536451 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:06:16 +0100 1536451 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1901 The latest issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law (Vol 26, issue 3) is a special on videoconferencing and the law introduced by Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan and Alan R. Felthous. Contents include: Empirical evidence on the use and effectiveness of telepsychiatry via videoconferencing: Implications for forensic and correctional psychiatry - Diana J. Antonacci, Richard M. Bloch, Sy Atezaz Saeed, Yilmaz Yildirim, Jessica Talley VA telemental health: Suicide assessment - Linda Godleski, J. Edwin Nieves, Adam Darkins, Laurent Lehmann Telepsychiatry with rural American Indians: issues in civil commitments - Jay H. Shore, Joseph D. Bloom, Spero M. Manson, Ron J. Whitener Teleconferencing model for forensic consultation, court testimony, and continuing education - Thomas W. Miller, James Cla... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1516487 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:29:43 +0100 1516487 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1900 Dr Tim Grant got in touch recently to let me know about the launch of a new Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University. He writes: The Centre for Forensic Linguistics is a new initiative combining: Consultancy services PhD research opportunities MSc Forensic Linguistics by distance learning and so available to study worldwide Professional courses for police, legal professionals and others. For anyone unfamiliar with the field, Tim, Professor Malcolm Coulthard (director of the Centre) and their colleague Dr Krzysztof Kredens all have excellent reputations in forensic linguistics and as well as producing good quality research, have also worked with law enforcement agencies on some important and high profile cases. There’s a heap of information on the Centre website so why ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1450250 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:39:33 +0100 1450250 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1899 Recently advertised jobs in the UK: Research Assistant, Judging Offenders: the role of observers’ emotions, Department of Psychology, University of Kent: The successful candidate will work on the ESRC funded research project “Judging Offenders: the role of observers’ emotions under the direction of Dr Jane Wood. The project examines how people’s trait emotions and moods influence the way they perceive offenders and their subsequent judgements of how the offender should be treated. Closing date: 9 May Senior Lecturer, Applied Criminology, Department of Crime and Policing Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University: The Department currently offers popular undergraduate programmes in Applied Criminology, Crime and Policing, Forensic Investigation, Legal Studies, Police Studies an... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1420426 Mon, 05 May 2008 08:15:33 +0100 1420426 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1897 The May 2008 issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior (Volume 35, No 5) is a special issue on child sexual abuse, particularly timely in view of the Pope’s current visit to the USA. Abstracts can be accessed here, though you’ll need to pay or have a subscription to view the full articles. Here are the contents: Karen J. Terry - Stained Glass: The Nature and Scope of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Margaret Leland Smith, Andres F. Rengifo, and Brenda K. Vollman - Trajectories of Abuse and Disclosure: Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Karen J. Terry, Tasha Youstin, and Matt Nobles - Collaring the Criminal: Understanding Criminal Careers of Criminal Clerics Anthony D. Perillo, Cynthia Calkins Mercado, and Karen J. Terry - Repea... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1386037 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:18:19 +0100 1386037 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1895 Via the Associated Press, 6 April: His life a shambles after he was sent to prison for murder, then set free with new evidence, Timothy Masters paused to reflect on the calamitous series of events that brought him to ruin’s precipice. Almost 21 years passed before DNA evidence proved what he’d been saying all along: He is no killer. He was just a teenage boy with a hobby of drawing gruesome pictures. His sketches of shootings, stabbings, explosions, torture were used as evidence to convict him of killing an aspiring writer in 1987, a conviction that was ultimately overturned. But the prosecution of Masters raises troubling questions, primarily because it pivoted on the controversial opinions of a board certified forensic psychologist who analyzed the sketches and concluded Ma... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1364915 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:22:39 +0100 1364915 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1892 My life’s a bit busy at the moment with not much time for considered blogging. Forgive me if, for a little while, I post interesting titbits without much commentary (better, I think, than posting nothing at all, or posting ill-considered commentary). Three articles caught my eye in the latest issue of The Social Science Journal. The first is on homicide in the US South: A significant literature has evolved in the last 40 years investigating regional variation in lethal violence, with most studies focusing on Southern homicide rates…. We investigate regional variations in the effects of resource deprivation on White homicide in rural areas—a context in which the Southern culture of violence should be most prominent….The results of our county-level analyses of census and ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1340552 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1340552 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1894 Recently advertised jobs: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (0.1 or 0.2fte), Forensic Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University: The School of Psychology invites applications for a fractional lectureship in forensic psychology. You will contribute to teaching and project supervision in the area of forensic psychology. Closing date: Friday 4 April 2008 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Crime Science, Northumbria University: This is a new post to join a closely knit team in teaching crime science on a range of undergraduate and post graduate programmes. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the development of component modules of the BA (Hons) in Crime Science and undertake research and consultancy in areas which compliment the activities of the School. Closing Date: 07 April Lecturer in Pol... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1340553 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:30:25 +0100 1340553 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1891 The glorious Situationist Blog (22 Feb) draws our attention to an interesting video and a recent NPR broadcast, both exploring the issues around brain scanning in legal / criminal justice contexts. The video is a panel discussion entitled “My Brain Made Me Do It” and the NPR broadcast is “Neurolaw: The New Frontier”. Access both via the Situationist here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1336658 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:31:32 +0100 1336658 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1890 Discussion of the life of Serbian warlord Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, with Christopher Stewart, author of Hunting the Tiger: The Fast Life and Violent Death of the Balkans’ Most Dangerous Man A report on Mexico’s Murdered Grupero Singers: “Maureen Meyer … explains what these murders have to do with Mexico’s brutal drug wars”. Photo credit: Focus_on_me, Creative Commons License (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1306524 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0100 1306524 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1888 The 3rd International Conference on Investigative Interviewing will be held 16-18 June 2008 in Quebec, Canada. The theme is “The Search for the Truth”. According to the website: This conference is mainly addressed to: • investigators and civilian and police personnel from Québec, Canadian, and international police forces; • investigators from Quebec, Canadian, and international governmental organizations; • academics and researchers from fields closely related to investigations; • and Crown Attorneys. The chair of the Scientific committee, Michel St Yves writes: The statements of witnesses, victims and suspects, represent a considerable part of the work conducted by investigators. Testimonials and facts must be brought together in order to solve the puzzle. Testimon... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1303251 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:23:04 +0100 1303251 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1887 Recently advertised jobs and research studentships in the UK and US: Part Time Lecturer, Drug Awareness, Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa: … to deliver the NCFE Drug Awareness qualifications to 16-18 year olds. The postholder will be required to deliver training in schools throughout Warwickshire. Closing date: 12 March Two PhD Studentships, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge: … based in the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study Research Centre (PADS+) within the Institute of Criminology…. Candidates are expected to show interest in longitudinal research and quantitative data and analysis. Candidate will work closely with the PADS+ research team but will also be expected to carry out independent data collection. Closing date 14... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1288391 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:47:24 +0100 1288391 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1885 The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School is holding a conference on “Ideology, Psychology & Law” this Saturday, 8 March. At this year’s conference, leading social scientists will present their illuminating research regarding the psychological sources and effects of “ideology.” Together with several distinguished law professors, the researchers will also discuss the implications of their work for policy, politics, law, and legal theory. More here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1282221 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:16:00 +0100 1282221 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1884 Hat tip to Crime and Consequences for alerting us to an upcoming conference at Columbia Law School: …a one day conference on Violence on Campus: Prediction, Prevention and Response to be held on Friday, April 4, 2008 at the Law School. The conference, which will feature academic experts from law and the social sciences, policy makers and practitioners, is intended to bring together professionals and academics to share knowledge and information, and to stimulate research and innovative policy development in this area. We expect that attendees will include university attorneys and administrators; counseling center directors and staff; off-campus clinicians who work with students; academics in mental health, law, and policy; students; and the media. The programme includes: Understandin... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1252825 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:47:50 +0100 1252825 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1883 Recently advertised jobs and PhD studentships (all in the UK): Senior Researcher, Employment, Welfare and Crime Group, National Centre for Social Research (Natcen): The post will be based in the Employment, Welfare and Crime Group. The group conducts a variety of projects, some long-established and others with shorter time-scales. It is likely that the person appointed would work initially on the Evaluation of the Incapacity Benefit Reform Pilots, which is a key part of the Government’s policies aimed at helping people claiming benefit to move into paid work. Closing date: 27th February 2008. University Tutor in Criminal Justice, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth: Applications are invited for a full-time University Tutor post within the Institute of Crim... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1251744 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:22:04 +0100 1251744 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1881 Sage Publications has made the latest issue of Homicide Studies freely available for a limited time. It’s a special issue on homicide in an international context. The press release explains: From cross-national to country-specific empirical analyses and exploratory studies, the special issue, guest edited by Indiana University’s William Alex Pridemore, examines homicide from diverse global, gender, age, and cultural directions, looking at such wide-ranging concepts as: The association between alcohol consumption and homicide rates in Europe How economic inequality affects homicide rates in 14 developed democracies Cross-national infanticide Homicide in Finland (which has a higher rate than most European countries) Neighborhood-levels factors associated with homicide in the Netherl... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1236944 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:07:17 +0100 1236944 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1880 The call is out for abstracts for the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO): Preventing Sexual Violence through Effective Sexual Offender Treatment and Public Policy The conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa 27-30 August 2008. The organisers explain: In partnership with UNICEF and the Government of South Africa, represented by the Special Director of Public Prosecutions and the Sexual Offences Community Affairs Unit, support will be rendered to concentrate on initiatives associated with the risk of HIV infection, post-rape and sexual violence in preventing and reducing the incidence of sexual violence against woman and children through treatment of sexual offenders. There is still time to submit an abstract for presentat... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1226718 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:47:36 +0100 1226718 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1877 Three articles of forensic interest in the March 2008 issue of Personality and Individual Differences 44(4): Diana Falkenbach, Norman Poythress and Caysyn Creevy: The exploration of subclinical psychopathic subtypes and the relationship with types of aggression Emma Warnock-Parkes, Gisli Gudjonsson and Julian Walker: The relationship between the Maudsley Violence Questionnaire and official recordings of violence in mentally disordered offenders Jonathan P. Maxwell: Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Buss–Warren Aggression Questionnaire (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1216493 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:29:19 +0100 1216493 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1878 Harvard University, via the National Institute of Justice, is holding an online discussion event on 7 February between 1400 and 1600 EST. The topic is Sexual Victimization in Prisons. Here’s the blurb: One of every 22 men and women sentenced to imprisonment in the United States reported that they were assaulted sexually while incarcerated. Sexual victimization in prisons is the issue, elimination is the goal. And: This expert chat, sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Innovators Network and the National Institute of Justice, features a panel of experts who will discuss the state of Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) research — what data is available and what’s yet to come — and examine how we will move from better understanding to reliable prevention a... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1204649 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:31:52 +0100 1204649 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1876 The journal Feminist Criminology has a call for papers out. They explain: Feminist Criminology is an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. Published quarterly by SAGE as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime… Feminist Criminology welcomes academics, practitioners, and researchers interested in studies that incorporate a feminist critique to the study of gender and crime to submit articles, reviews, or special issue proposals to the editor. Manuscripts involving empirical research, theoretical analysis, and practice-orie... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1197423 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:22:14 +0100 1197423 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1874 Recently advertised jobs in the UK: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Criminology/Social Science, University of Chester: The successful candidate will ideally hold a PhD or will be nearing completion of a PhD in criminology or a related subject. The Department would like to attract a candidate with strengths in criminological theory and at least one other area of criminology enquiry. Closing date: 5th February Research Assistant, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Central Lancashire: This is a limited term post within the University of Central Lancashire’s new inter-disciplinary Centre of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The Research Assistant will work closely with key staff in the Centre in developing externally funded research and knowledge transfer opportunitie... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192827 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:46:44 +0100 1192827 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1872 If you haven’t seen it already, head over to the BPS Research Digest blog where there’s a good summary of some interesting research on false confessions: [Jessica] Klaver’s team have used an elegant laboratory task to compare two types of interrogation technique and found that it is so-called ‘minimising’ questions and remarks - those that downplay the seriousness of the offence, and which blame other people or circumstances - that are the most likely to lead to a false confession. Using minimization techniques can be part of the Reid Technique, a popular law enforcement interrogation technique taught widely in the US and Canada which some researchers have argued puts vulnerable individuals at risk of falsely confessing. To be fair, however, the proponents o... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1188582 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:47:12 +0100 1188582 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1871 Two articles of forensic interest in the Feb 2008 issue of Acta Psychologica, both dealing with the effects of misinformation: Kevin Allan and Fiona Gabbert (2008). I still think it was a banana: Memorable ‘lies’ and forgettable ‘truths’ Acta Psychologica 127(2):299-308 Interpersonal influences on cognition can distort memory judgements. Two experiments examined the nature of these ‘social’ influences, and whether their persistence is independent of their accuracy. Experiment 1 found that a confederate’s social proximity, as well as the content and the confidence of their utterances, interactively modulates participants’ immediate conformity. Notably, errant confederate statements that ‘lied’ about encoded material had a particularly strong immediate distorting influenc... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1179673 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:45:10 +0100 1179673 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1870 The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research has announced an impressive series of seminars for January to March 2008. Seminars take place at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. More details on the SCCJR website. 24 January - Ms Helen Baillot, Scottish Refugee Council: ‘Asylum in Scotland - a Human Rights perspective?’ 29 January - Professor Nicola Lacey, LSE: ‘From Moll Flanders to Tess of D’Urbervilles: Gender, Identity and Criminalisation in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England’. 31 January - Professor Johannes Feest, University of Bremen: ‘The future of prisons and prison abolitionism’. 4 February - Charles Woolfson, School of Law, University of Glasgow: ‘The conventionalisation of safety crime in the Baltic... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1173137 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:00:06 +0100 1173137 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1868 Slim pickings recently for job hunters looking for forensic-related positions. Here’s the best so far this month: Research Assistant/Fellow (2 Posts), School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen: …to work on a research project which aims to develop objective and effective means of assessing the extent to which a particular eyewitness memory report can be relied on as evidence. Closing date:31 January Clinical Associate Professor in Forensic Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry – Forensic Mental Health Section, University of Nottingham: …The Forensic Mental Health Section is establishing an expanding research programme particularly focusing on the neuropsychological basis of personality disorder, its treatment evaluation and outcome. Candidates must have a strong record o... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1169657 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:23:38 +0100 1169657 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1866 The US Office for Victims of Crime is hosting an online discussion on 9 January at 2pm (Eastern Time): … in recognition of National Stalking Awareness Month, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), in coordination with the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), will present a Web Forum discussion with Michelle Garcia on best practices for assisting victims of intimate partner stalking. Ms. Garcia is Director of the Stalking Resource Center at the National Center for Victims of Crime. You can submit questions now via their forum or during the session on 9 January. More details here. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1130984 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:27:28 +0100 1130984 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1861 Money Aside, What Were They Thinking? wonders DeNeen L. Brown, in the Washington Post (13 December): You wonder whether they were just broke or thought they were a bit smarter than everybody else. Wonder if you got close enough, could you detect small stains of guilt on their white collars? …Experts who study those who defraud, embezzle and steal from the government say they are no different from other criminals. They swim just as easily in rancid waters. “This is how their minds work,” says Terrance Lichtenwald, a clinical psychologist in Illinois who has written profiles of white-collar criminals for clinical studies and forensic journals. “They are going to be nice to you. The face they present to you will be very charming.” (Source: Psychology and Crime Ne... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1129373 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0100 1129373 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1865 The 2008 EAPL Conference will be held in Maastricht, Netherlands from 2 to 5 July. The organisers are inviting papers and symposium proposals in the following areas: Civil cases Decision making in forensic experts Eyewitness evidence False confessions Forensic psychodiagnostics Juvenile delinquency Law and neuroscience Lie detection Malingering and deception Mental illness and offending Offender profiling Psychopathy Rehabilitation of offenders The deadline for submission is 25 January. Further details here. Photo credit: theparadigmshifter, Creative Commons License (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1127331 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:00:29 +0100 1127331 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1860 This report attempts to provide some insight into these questions by giving an overview of key findings from national and state-based evaluations that have been undertaken of these initiatives. It will summarise the outcome-based results currently available, identify the knowledge gaps that still exist and point to areas where further work is required to provide a more definitive insight into the value of these programs. [PDF available] Violent Crime in America: A Tale of Two Cities (published by Police Executive Research Forum, November 2007). From the Overview: …early indications for 2007 suggest that the countermeasures are beginning to have an impact on crime, according to PERF’s latest survey. When the same sample of 56 jurisdictions used in PERF’s previous surveys are analy... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1124857 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:00:32 +0100 1124857 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1862 The National Institute of Justice is inviting research proposals [pdf]. Up to $4 million may be available. They say: We’re looking for innovative, precedent-setting ideas in what we call our “open” solicitation for social and behavioral research and evaluation on criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice. As always, the questions your research answers should have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice. Other NIJ solicitations and awards can help you focus on targeted topics of interest. Deadline: March 5, 2008 There are a couple of other research solicitations open at the moment: * Terrorism (due: February 5, 2008) * Abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elders (due: February 5, 2008) (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1122530 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:55:42 +0100 1122530 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1863 An APA summit on violence and abuse in relationships will be held February 28 - 29, 2008 in Bethesda, MD. According to the announcement: Topics include Intimate Partner Violence, Child Maltreatment, Children Exposed to Violence and Abuse, Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Issues, Ethnic Minority, Cultural Issues, Substance Abuse, and related themes. The focus will be on What We Know, What We Need to Know, and Where Do We Need to Go with respect to Research, Intervention, and Prevention. The program will consist of a number of plenary speakers and break-out groups to discuss relevant topics. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1121952 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:00:07 +0100 1121952 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1858 An interesting article in the latest issue of Psychiatric Services discusses police decision making when faced with people with mental illness. Here’s the abstract: The criminalization hypothesis assumes that deinstitutionalization coupled with inadequate police training has led to the increased arrest of people with mental illness. Arrest is viewed as a means to manage the troublesome behavior that often results from mental illness. Supporting research has emphasized the contributing role that illness plays in the arrest decision. This assumption largely ignores an extant criminal justice literature on the factors that influence arrest. On the basis of a review of this criminal justice literature, beginning with Bittner’s 1967 seminal work, a framework is proposed that incorpo... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1121953 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:55:00 +0100 1121953 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1857 From the Leonard Lopate Show: Are Sex Offender Laws Working? (20 December): “US sex offender laws may do harm than good, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch. Strict notification laws and residency requirements don’t reflect the reality of the risks children face, may not protect victims, and violate the basic human rights of former offenders.” Exonerated: Life After Wrongful Imprisonment (The Leonard Lopate Show: 19 December): “Barry Gibbs spent 19 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. David Shepard was wrongfully convicted of rape, and served 10 years of a 30-year sentence. Both were exonerated. But exoneration comes with its own set of challenges. Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Shepard, and Innocence Project attorney Vanessa Potkin explain why returning t... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1121266 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:24:31 +0100 1121266 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1855 Recently advertised jobs in the UK, and postgraduate opportunities in Australia: HURRY - SHORT DEADLINE: Research Worker, Employment of Offenders, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, London: An experienced researcher is required to undertake a research project to identify training and employment initiatives for people about to be released from prison. The project will aim to conduct a survey of schemes operating across the prison estate in England and Wales and associated probation services. We will assess each scheme identified using an adapted Individual Placement and Support (IPS) fidelity scale to assess how the scheme works and its success in enabling offenders to find and maintain employment. Closing date: 2nd January HURRY - SHORT DEADLINE: Lecturer, Policing and Criminal Invest... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1119240 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:19:23 +0100 1119240 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1851 Latest criminal justice-related reports via Docuticker Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department’s Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices, published by RAND (full report and summary available via the link): In 2006, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stopped a half-million pedestrians for suspected criminal involvement. Raw statistics for these encounters suggest large racial disparities — 89 percent of the stops involved nonwhites…researchers analyzed data on all street encounters between NYPD officers and pedestrians in 2006. …They found small racial differences in these rates and make communication, recordkeeping, and training recommendations to the NYPD for improving police-pedestrian interactions. Manuel Utset, in Hyperbolic Criminals an... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1073140 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:00:41 +0100 1073140 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1853 Quick links from around the web and blogosphere: Investigations and courtroom : The Sunday Times (25 Nov) reports on a new facial morphing technique called EvoFIT “that transforms the Photofit faces of criminal suspects into animated caricatures up to seven times more likely to be recognised than standard likenesses”. The system was developed by UK psychologists, one of whom commented that using the new system leads to “…a massive jump in the level of recognition [which] is really reliable”. Lots more information including plenty of downloadable papers on the EvoFIT webpages . The Eyewitness Identification Reform blog highlights scholarly commentary on the effectiveness of cross-examination for getting at the truth of eyewitness evidence. Following a detailed and ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1068669 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:06 +0100 1068669 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1849 The UK Government has finally published details of proposed reforms to the criminal justice system, in a bid do something to increase the appalling 6% conviction rate for rape. I can’t find a link to the official Government announcement, but the Guardian (29 Nov) is one of many news media to report the details, which include informing jurors of the range of responses that victims may have to rape: Juries are to be told how rape victims typically respond in an attempt to dispel “rape myths” which ministers believe are contributing to plummeting conviction rates for the crime. A panel of judges, doctors and academics will start work next month on the project, which will attempt to put together a package to inform the jury without interfering with the fairness of a trial. &#... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1065810 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:30:22 +0100 1065810 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1847 The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at Kings College London has published a set of essays based on contributions and papers from a two day conference held by the Centre earlier this year. This collection of essays from more than 20 researchers and academics highlights how the government has failed to tackle deep-rooted social injustice. Published as part of our Harm and Society project, the collection explores themes such as the impact of historically high levels of inequality, endemic violence against women and the increasing reliance on criminal justice measures to manage social problems. Table of contents below the fold. Reference: Rebecca Roberts and Will McMahon (eds). Social justice and criminal justice. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, November 2007. PDF Contents Introdu... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1063537 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:01:09 +0100 1063537 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1846 The UK Home Office has published several new reports in the last month. Five reports deal with different aspects of illicit drug use. Home Office Research Report 02 provides results on a Drug Interventions Programme (DIP): addressing drug use and offending through ‘Tough Choices’ (pdf). Home Office Research Report 03 reports on a Drug Treatment Outcomes Research Study (pdf). Three further reports provide information on measuring the harm from illegal drugs (pdf); national and regional estimates of the prevalence of opiate use and/or crack cocaine use (pdf); and the illicit drug trade in the United Kingdom (pdf). Prospective crime mapping in operational context by Shane D Johnson, Daniel J Birks, Lindsay McLaughlin, Kate J Bowers and Ken Pease reports on a trial of a tool to predict bur... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1061025 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:58:06 +0100 1061025 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1844 An article by Ferdinand Sutterlüty in the Sage journal Ethnography explores the concept of ‘violent careers’, in particular the precursors to a violent life, and the ‘tipping points’: events that might precipitate a vulnerable young person into a criminal lifestyle. The author points out that although the word ‘career’ suggests a purposeful trajectory, in actuality: … the developmental stages through which young violent criminals pass cannot be grasped using a ‘career’ concept that presumes set opportunities and structures within which they methodically and strategically move forward. Although their violent careers are characterized by phases of goal-oriented action, the young people also go through phases in which they feel they are ‘buffet... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1047935 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:00:11 +0100 1047935 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1842 An article in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography reports on a long-term study of how drug-using offenders tell truth and lies in a US drug court. Mackinem (the paper’s first author) is a member of drug court staff, and the discussion of how he and his co-author negotiated the challenges of ‘participant observation’ is as interesting as the results of their observations. In the course of a multiyear investigation of three drug courts in a southeastern state, we explored how drug-court staff decides whether clients are telling the truth or lying when the staff confronts them with a positive test for drugs… The drug-court staff’s construction of truths and lies is one occasion of many when staff members create moral identities for their clients and for those ap... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045079 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:33:47 +0100 1045079 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1840 A few new articles on eyewitnessing that caught my eye (natch) recently: Daniel Wright in the October 2007 issue of Memory ponders the impact of eyewitness identifications from simultaneous and sequential lineups: < P> Recent guidelines in the US allow either simultaneous or sequential lineups to be used for eyewitness identification. This paper investigates how potential jurors weight the probative value of the different outcomes from both of these types of lineups…[Participants] had to judge the guilt of the suspect and decide whether to render a guilty verdict. For both simultaneous and sequential lineups an identification had a large effect, increasing the probability of a guilty verdict. There were no reliable effects detected between making no identification and identifyi... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1041392 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:00:29 +0100 1041392 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1838 This article argues that an iconic event in the history of helping research–the story of the 38 witnesses who remained inactive during the murder of Kitty Genovese–is not supported by the available evidence. Using archive material, the authors show that there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive. Drawing a distinction between the robust bystander research tradition and the story of the 38 witnesses, the authors explore the consequences of the story for the discipline of psychology. They argue that the story itself plays a key role in psychology textbooks. They also suggest that the story marks a new way of conceptualizing the dangers of immersion in social groups. Finally, they suggest that t... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1037748 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:21:52 +0100 1037748 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1837 Recently advertised jobs: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Forensic Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK): The Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology is known internationally for its work in violent and sex offending, offender profiling, child abuse, victim reactions, and family processes involved in attachment… You should have expertise that complements the Centre’s research strengths in these areas. Closing date: 20 December Assistant Professor in Forensic/Legal Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology (FL, USA): The School of Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology seeks an assistant professor in forensic/legal psychology for our undergraduate program in forensic psychology. Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Forensic Psychology, or a closely-related field required. The positi... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1034188 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:49:23 +0100 1034188 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1835 This article examines seminal examples of serial killer fiction and film including Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their cinematic adaptations, Bret Easton Ellis and Mary Harron’s American Psycho (1991 and 2000) and David Fincher’s Se7en (1995). The main contention is that the commodification of violence in popular culture is structurally integrated with the violence of commodification itself. Starting with the rather obvious ways in which violent crime is marketed as a spectacle to be consumed, this article then attempts to uncover less transparent links between the normal desires which circulate within consumer society and monstrous violence. In `Monsters Inc.’, the serial killer is unmasked as a gothic double of the serial consumer. Photo credit: veni ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1025356 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:00:19 +0100 1025356 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1831 A sad story in the Observer (11 Nov) reports that healthcare providers are ‘failing to spot child abuse’: Doctors and social workers are failing children who end up in hospital after abuse or neglect by their parents, a government-funded inquiry has found. Some are discharged from casualty departments and allowed to go home, despite suspicious injuries such as a black eye or broken arm, because they are not identified as being at risk, states a report by the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) charity. Doctors and nurses say specialist social workers are overworked and often reluctant to intervene, even if it is thought children are likely to suffer further harm. Social workers, for their part, told researchers they were ‘frustrated with medical staff who were not prep... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1022158 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:00:21 +0100 1022158 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1833 Steven Erickson and Alan Felthous are editing a special issue of Behavioral Sciences and the Law on the neuroscience of decision making and the law and are seeking contributions: Manuscripts that address the following issues are especially welcome: Neuroscience and neuroimaging results of areas of moral judgment; the impact and limitations of such findings on legally relevant behavior; neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological and genetic disorders which impinge on intent and responsibility. Original research reports and forensically relevant literature reviews will be included. In addition to clinically relevant manuscripts examining the above issues, legal reviews and scholarly essays examining the interplay between relevant scientific findings and historic or contemporary legal norms are al... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1019997 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:14 +0100 1019997 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1830 Malcolm Gladwell casts a skeptical eye over the theory and practice of criminal profiling in his most recent article for the New Yorker (12 Nov). His piece has generated a lot of coverage in the blogs, with some commentary from, among others, Mind Hacks, Karen Franklin and The Frontal Cortex. I’m all for the ‘debunking’ of the Hollywood myth of the criminal profiler, and I love Gladwell’s work. But I don’t think this article is really much more than a bit of entertainment, and in particular, I’m not sure it really tells us what the FBI profilers do now: Gladwell discusses the work of Robert Ressler, John Douglas and Roy Hazelwood - FBI pioneers of profiling - but they retired more than a decade ago. It’s been reported that the FBI has taken ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1019349 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:49:07 +0100 1019349 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1828 In the UK: Research Fellow, Children and Families Experiencing Domestic Violence: Police and Children’s Services Responses, University of Central Lancashire: An experienced researcher is required to provide locum cover for 7 months on a national study of the child care service responses to children and families living with domestic violence. Closing date: 14 November Research Associate/Fellow, Investigating offensive and defensive alcohol-related aggression in young male offenders, University of Nottingham: Applications are invited for the above post, funded by the Alcohol Education & Research Council, to investigate offensive and defensive alcohol-related aggression in young male offenders….The project will involve conducting interviews and completing psychometric tests wi... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1019108 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:02:31 +0100 1019108 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1822 The August 2007 issue of Child Abuse and Neglect 31(8) is now online. Follow the link to the Science Direct website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: The promise and limitations of home visiting: Implementing effective programs - Deanna S. Gomby Impact of a statewide home visiting program to prevent child abuse - Anne Duggan, Debra Caldera, Kira Rodriguez, Lori Burrell, Charles Rohde and Sarah Shea Crowne Impact of a statewide home visiting program on parenting and on child health and development - Debra Caldera, Lori Burrell, Kira Rodriguez, Sarah Shea Crowne, Charles Rohde and Anne Duggan Psychometric evaluation and comparison of three retrospective, multi-item measures of childhood sexual abuse - Polly A. Hulme Female sexual-offenders: Personality pathol... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1015757 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:55:41 +0100 1015757 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1820 Having neglected this blog somewhat in recent weeks I find myself now overwhelmed with interesting snippets from around the web and blogosphere. Here are just a few that caught my eye: The Eyewitness Reform Blog reports on a conviction “overturned for failure to “seriously consider” expert testimony on eyewitness factors”: “The court didn’t go as far as to say that it was error to exclude the expert testimony, but citing Illinois case law, found that it was error to fail to provide a reasoned basis for its exclusion.” The Eyewitness Reform Blog also highlights the recent publication of an article in the NIJ Journal on making eyewitness identification in police line-ups more reliable. Convicted conman Frank Abnegale claims that a combination of tech... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1010405 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:00:05 +0100 1010405 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1824 Journal of Criminal Justice 35(4), July-August 2007 and Journal of Criminal Justice 35(5), September-October 2007 are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents: Journal of Criminal Justice 35(4): Predicting crime story salience: A replication - Steven Chermak and Nicole M. Chapman Duration of the time to reconviction: Evidence from UK prisoner discharge data - Roger Arthur Bowles and Chrisostomos Florackis Convicting and incarcerating felony offenders of intimate assault and the odds of new assault charges - John Wooldredge Roles of neighborhood race and status in the middle stages of juror selection - Ralph B. Taylor, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Lillian Dote and Brian A. Lawton Race and repeats: The impact of officer per... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1010406 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:55:00 +0100 1010406 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1818 A press release (2 Nov) heralds the publication of a new study by Professor Sean Spence from the University of Sheffield, who claims the research shows that fMRI “could be used alongside other factors to address questions of guilt versus innocence”. It’s an interesting study on two counts: one, it appears to be the first time that fMRI lie-detection research has been carried out using a real world case (as opposed to contrived experiments), and two, the research was funded by a TV company and featured on a TV documentary earlier this year. The article is currently in press in the journal European Psychiatry (reference below). The press release gives a summary of the findings: An academic at the University of Sheffield has used groundbreaking technology to investigate the... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1003538 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:00:37 +0100 1003538 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1826 The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 46(4), September 2007 is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professionally-Facilitated Volunteerism in the Community-Based Management of High-Risk Sexual Offenders: Part Two - A Comparison of Recidivism Rates - ROBIN J. WILSON, JANICE E. PICHECA, MICHELLE PRINZO Individual Differences in Public Opinion about Youth Crime and Justice in Swansea - KEVIN HAINES, STEPHEN CASE Improving the Civil-Criminal Interface for Victims of Domestic Violence - AMANDA L. ROBINSON Deciding Upon Mode of Trial - STEVEN CAMMISS Policing Anti-Social Behaviour: Constraints, Dilemmas and Opportunities - SARAH HODGKINSON, NICK TILLEY Youth Justice, Socia... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1003539 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:55:00 +0100 1003539 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1816 From the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London, a press release (25 Oct) announces the publication of a new report on victims of crime and social injustice: The experience of social injustice is concentrated among the poorest and most vulnerable, according to a report published today … Victims of crime living on low incomes are substantially more likely to experience a range of civil legal problems… The findings show: A strong association between criminal victimisation, social exclusion and people experiencing a broad range of civil justice problem. The `socially excluded’ appears to be at particular risk Socially excluded victims were substantially more likely to experience civil problems than non-socially excluded non-victims, with 60 per ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1002502 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:00:16 +0100 1002502 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1815 A few weeks ago PCN featured a journal article on talking to sex offenders. Now, courtesy of the BBC (30 Oct), news that the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has set up a behavioural analysis unit to better understand sex offenders. Psychologists are conducting interviews with imprisoned offenders. As the BBC story explains: These interviews are being recorded, with 1,000 hours already having been collected, and then analysed by experts to learn more about offenders and their motivation. The point of the unit… is to “improve knowledge about offenders, why they do what they do and how we can prevent that from happening”. Ceop tackles child sex abuse and its new unit has a staff of four, which includes forensic psychologists and specialists in fore... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1001620 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:27:02 +0100 1001620 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1813 Recently advertised jobs in the UK: Research Associate: Language Use and Deception, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University: “Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a 21-month project investigating language use and deception. The project seeks to broaden our understanding of verbal indicators of deception by studying the language use of non-student populations over a range of tasks. Its particular focus will be on testing and developing innovative methods of linguistic analysis to capture such verbal indicators”. Closing date: 8 November. Principal Lecturer in Forensic Psychology (0.4fte), London Metropolitan University: “We are looking for candidates who can offer expertise in Forensic Psychology. The Department offers a wide ran... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1000984 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:15:18 +0100 1000984 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1798 The latest four issues of Journal of Family Violence (Volume 22 Numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 ) are online via the Springer website. Follow the link for abstracts and access to full text articles. Tables of contents below the fold. (more…) (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=989659 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:55:13 +0100 989659 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1796 Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 18(4) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Medical evidence for the purposes of recall to hospital under Section 42(3) of the Mental Health Act 1983 - Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye Opening communicative space: A Habermasian understanding of a user-led participatory research project - Paul Godin; Jacqueline Davies; Bob Heyman; Lisa Reynolds; Alan Simpson; Mike Floyd Risk typologies of serious harm offenders managed under MAPPA: Mental health, personality disorders, and self-harm as distinguishing risk factors - Joanne Wood Homicide-suicide in the Netherlands: A study of newspaper reports, 1992 - 2005 - M. C. A. Liem; F. Koenraadt Forensic inpatient male se... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=989660 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 989660 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1800 The Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23(3) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Understanding the Role of Repeat Victims in the Production of Annual US Victimization Rates - Michael Planty, Kevin J. Strom Space–Time Patterns of Risk: A Cross National Assessment of Residential Burglary Victimization - Shane D. Johnson, Wim Bernasco, Kate J. Bowers, Henk Elffers, Jerry Ratcliffe, George Rengert, Michael Townsley A Capture–Recapture Model to Estimate the Size of Criminal Populations and the Risks of Detection in a Marijuana Cultivation Industry - Martin Bouchard Community Variation in Crime Clearance: A Multilevel Analysis with Comments on Assessing Police Performance - Paul-Philippe Paré, Ri... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=989661 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:13:00 +0100 989661 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1802 The November 2007 issue of Journal of Interpersonal Violence 22(11) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Sign up for personalised ToC alerts here . Contents include: Assessing the Factors Associated With Sexual Harassment Among Young Female Migrant Workers in Nepal - Mahesh Puri and John Cleland Parricide: An Empirical Analysis of 24 Years of U.S. Data - Kathleen M. Heide and Thomas A. Petee Weapons Used by Juveniles and Adult Offenders in U.S. Parricide Cases - Kathleen M. Heide and Thomas A. Petee Postdicting Arrests for Proactive and Reactive Aggression With the PICTS Proactive and Reactive Composite Scales - Glenn D. Walters, Alice A. Frederick, and Charles Schlauch Acculturation Stress, Drinking, and Intimate ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=971408 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:55:04 +0100 971408 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1794 Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 18(3) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Theory of mind function, motor empathy, emotional empathy and schizophrenia: A single case study - Karen Addy; Karen Shannon; Kevin Brookfield The development of a scale for measuring offence-related feelings of shame and guilt - Kim Wright; Gisli H. Gudjonsson An audit of the association between the use of antipsychotic medication and bone density measurement in female patients within a special (high security) hospital - Jane Orr; Liz Jamieson A study of forensic psychiatric screening reports and their relationship to full psychiatric reports - Pål Grøndahl; Stein E. Ikdahl; Alv A. Dahl Staff responses to... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=968266 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:55:32 +0100 968266 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1792 European Journal of Criminology 4(4) , October 2007 is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Birds of Different Feathers: School Networks of Serious Delinquent, Minor Delinquent and Non-delinquent Boys and Girls - Frank M. Weerman and Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld The Victimization of Dependent Drug Users: Findings from a European Study, UK - Alex Stevens, Daniele Berto, Ulrich Frick, Viktoria Kerschl, Tim McSweeney, Susanne Schaaf, Morena Tartari, Paul Turnbull, Barbara Trinkl, Ambros Uchtenhagen, Gabriele Waidner, and Wolfgang Werdenich Trust in the Police in 16 European Countries: A Multilevel Analysis - Juha Tapio Kaariainen The Europeanization of Human Rights: An Obstacle to Authoritarian Policing i... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966715 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:55:03 +0100 966715 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1811 Every so often Sage Publications generously offers free access to some of its journals. Their latest offer is a free online trial to their Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Interpersonal Violence Journals and is a great chance to develop your e-library. Regular PCN readers will know how many interesting articles have appeared in these journals over the last few months! Between now and 15 December 2007 you can access articles from the following journals, without subscription: Crime & Delinquency Child Maltreatment Criminal Justice and Behavior Criminal Justice Policy Review Criminal Justice Review Crime, Media, Culture Criminology and Criminal Justice European Journal of Criminology Feminist Criminology Homicide Studies International Criminal Justice Review International Journal of Of... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965198 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:13:55 +0100 965198 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1810 Just one job this week: Researcher, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool UK: […] this post is concerned with the development of research projects and monitoring systems in the field of drug and alcohol use. Projects will include the production of original research, co-ordinating criminal justice and drug/alcohol use monitoring systems and the use of data collected to provide reports for commissioners. Closing date: 6 November 2007 Photo credit: Khalilshah, Creative Commons License (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965199 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:04:50 +0100 965199 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1790 Deviant Behavior 28(6) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Exploring Careers in Deviance: A Joint Trajectory Analysis of Criminal Behavior and Substance Use in an Offender Population - Christopher J. Sullivan; Zachary K. Hamilton A Virtual View of Managing Violence among British Escorts - Kim Davies; Lorraine Evans A Comparative Analysis of Social Learning and Social Control Theories in the Prediction of College Crime - Allison Ann Payne; Steven Salotti (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965200 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:44:00 +0100 965200 http://audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate100407b.mp3 Some recent podcasts on topics relevant to psychology and crime: Reforming the New Orleans Criminal Justice System (Leonard Lopate Show, 13 Sept): Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans… Police stations and jails were ruined, essential information and files were lost, and the people who make up the criminal justice system were traumatized and displaced. Two years after the hurricane the system is up and running, but serious problems remain. Michael Jacobson, the Director of The Vera Institute of Justice, joins Leonard to speak about what happened in the aftermath of Katrina and what can be done to improve the justice system. MP3 Tackling Indonesian terror (ABC Radio, Australia, Background Briefing, 23 Sept): In a first for the international media, Bali bomber Ali Imron is let out of p... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=962523 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:00:11 +0100 962523 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1788 Crime & Delinquency 53(4) , October 2007 is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Strain, Attribution, and Traffic Delinquency Among Young Drivers: Measuring and Testing General Strain Theory in the Context of Driving - Steven J. Ellwanger Applying a Generic Juvenile Risk Assessment Instrument to a Local Context: Some Practical and Theoretical Lessons - Joel Miller and Jeffrey Lin Serious Mental Illness and Arrest: The Generalized Mediating Effect of Substance Use - James A. Swartz and Arthur J. Lurigio Whistle-Blowing and the Code of Silence in Police Agencies: Policy and Structural Predictors - Gary R. Rothwell and J. Norman Baldwin Recidivism of Supermax Prisoners in Washington State - David Lo... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=962524 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 962524 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1806 This article proposes an approach to deal with non-testifying demeanor evidence that occurs outside the witness box. Given the problems with having jurors rely on demeanor evidence, courts should be carefully monitoring the use of non-testifying demeanor evidence. Appropriate jury instructions should be given, including those warning jurors on proper use of such evidence. Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know so Little, and New Data on Capital Cases, a University of Michigan Public Law Working Paper (via SSRN): In the first part of this paper we address the problems inherent in studying wrongful convictions: our pervasive ignorance and the extreme difficulty of obtaining the data that we need to answer even basic questions. ….In the second part we dispel some of t... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959746 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:00:34 +0100 959746 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1784 Aggressive Behavior 33(6) , Nov/Dec 2007 is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: The impact of aggressive priming, rumination, and frustration on prison sentencing - Eduardo Antonio Vasquez, Vanessa O. Bartsch, William C. Pedersen, Norman Miller Longer you play, the more hostile you feel: examination of first person shooter video games and aggression during video game play - Christopher P. Barlett, Richard J. Harris, Ross Baldassaro Sequence and priming in 15 month-olds’ reactions to brief arm restraint: evidence for a hierarchy of anger responses - Michael Potegal, Sarah Robison, Fiona Anderson, Catherine Jordan, Elsa Shapiro Young adults’ media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959747 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 959747 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1779 The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, King’s College London is running a series of seminars on New Developments in Criminal Justice. The next two are on 27 November, featuring Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children’s Commissioner for England, and on 12 December with the Rt Hon Lord Justice Levenson, Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales. More details (and other speakers) via the Crime and Justice site or in this PDF flyer. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957227 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:11 +0100 957227 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1786 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 25(5), Sept/Oct 2007 is now online and includes a special section on Elder Issues edited by John Petrila. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Short-term involuntary examination of older adults in Florida - Annette Christy, Jennifer Bond, M. Scott Young Elderly homicide in Chicago: a research note - Seena Fazel, Mieko Bond, Gautam Gulati, Ian O’Donnell The relationship between guardian certification requirements and guardian sanctioning: a research issue in elder law and policy - Winsor C. Schmidt, Fevzi Akinci, Sarah A. Wagner A comparative study of laws, rules, codes and other influences on nursing homes’ disaster preparedness in the Gulf Coast states - Lisa M. Bro... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957228 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 957228 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1774 The Death Penalty Information Center recently got in touch to tell us about their free, Internet-based, university-level curriculum on the death penalty. They describe it like this: Capital Punishment in Context contains two teaching cases of individuals who were sentenced to death in the United States, Gary Graham and Juan Raul Garza, that are vehicles for engaging the larger issues surrounding capital punishment. The curriculum provides a detailed narrative account of each individual’s legal case, including resources such as the original reports from the homicide investigation, affidavits, and transcripts of testimony from witnesses. Capital Punishment in Context also incorporates detailed teaching notes, sample syllabi, and a variety of supplementary materials to support instructors. ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=954008 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:00:18 +0100 954008 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1782 Some articles of forensic interest in the July 2007 issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 77(3) . Follow the link for access to abstracts and full text articles. Posttraumatic Distress and Growth Among Wives of Prisoners of War: The Contribution of Husbands’ Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Wives’ Own Attachment - Rachel Dekel Tomorrow’s Players Under Occupation: An Analysis of the Association of Political Violence With Psychological Functioning and Domestic Violence, Among Palestinian Youth - Alean Al-Krenawi, John R. Graham and Mahmud A. Sehwail Do Urban Adolescents Become Desensitized to Community Violence? Data From a National Survey - Michael R. McCart, Daniel W. Smith, Benjamin E. Saunders, Dean G. Kilpatrick, Heidi Resnick and Kenneth J. Ruggiero Child... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=954009 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 954009 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1780 The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London is advertising a lecture on “Obstacles on the Road to Crime” by Professor Henk Elffers from the NSCR, Leiden, The Netherlands. The event will be held on Wednesday 24 October, 6.30pm - 7.30pm, in London. According to the website, “the talk will appeal to those interested in crime from a criminological, urban design, statistical and policy point of view.” More details on the JDI site. (Source: Psychology and Crime News) Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=950866 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:02:03 +0100 950866 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1778 Some articles of forensic interest in the October 2007 issue of the APA’s Monitor on Psychology 38(9): APA’s council calls for ban on torture: APA names specific torture methods that the U.S. government should prohibit. Stay involved or get out? APA members deliberate whether psychologists should play a role in military interrogations. Evil’s mundane roots: Three renowned behavioral scientists illuminate the triggers of our darkest behaviors. Stop the genocide: Several psychologists are working to end Darfur’s ethnic cleansing. Deeper than sticks and stones: Discrimination not only undermines a person’s self-worth, it can destroy family life. Psychologists’ testimony may not help: Judges and juries tend to trust their guts over psychologists’ testimony, speakers repo... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=950867 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:55:00 +0100 950867 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1804 A new study published last week by the UK charity Victim Support “reveals a complex cycle of violent crime among young people that challenges pre-conceived ideas that young people are simply either victims or offenders.” The press release explains: The report … shows that certain attitudes and risk factors can influence whether or not young people are likely to commit violent acts, be on the receiving end, or indeed fall into both categories. It suggests that tackling these lifestyle factors could help reduce levels of violence among the young. … Among the key findings, the study found that: Victims can become offenders because of their experience. Causes could include carrying out retaliation on the offender, or against others in a displaced show of strength or em... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=949624 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:32:41 +0100 949624 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1776 Recently advertised jobs in the UK : Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of Wolverhampton: Applicants should have teaching expertise and experience in the main areas of Criminology and appropriate research interests. The ability to teach sociological theory and research methods would be an advantage. Closing date: 19 October 2007. Research Worker: Antisocial Theme, Department of Forensic Mental Health Science, Institute of Psychiatry: The post holder will assist with a selection of studies across the Antisocial Theme of the BRC funded project, under the supervision of Prof. Sheilagh Hodgins. Closing date 23 October. Senior Research Officers, Home Office: In addition to a good Honours degree in a relevant discipline, you will have recent relevant experience of conducting resea... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=949625 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:22:07 +0100 949625 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1773 Press release from Buffalo University (5 Oct): Airport screeners, customs agents, police officers and members of the military who silently pose that question to people every day, may soon have much more than intuition to depend on to determine the answer. Computer and behavioral scientists at the University at Buffalo are developing automated systems that track faces, voices, bodies and other biometrics against scientifically tested behavioral indicators to provide a numerical score of the likelihood that an individual may be about to commit a terrorist act. “The goal is to identify the perpetrator in a security setting before he or she has the chance to carry out the attack,” said Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering in the UB School of Engineering a... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947951 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:58:33 +0100 947951 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1772 The University of Central Lancashire is hosting a conference on Family Aggression: Causes & Consequences, organised by the International Family Aggression Society. The conference will take place on 18 and 19 March next year, in Preston (Lancs, UK). The aim of this conference is to bring together academics, researchers, policy makers and service providers who are involved in working towards understanding, preventing and/or treating family aggression or the consequences of it. The focus of this conference is therefore broad and includes aggression between romantic partners, parent to child aggression, child to parent aggression, sibling aggression, elder aggression, and aggression to companion animals. As aggression within the family home contributes to physical and psychological injury,... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=928774 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:12:25 +0100 928774 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1767 Julian Boon, Lynsey Gozna and Stephen Hall have a paper forthcoming in the journal Personality and Individual Differences exploring whether it’s possible to ‘fake bad’ on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (GSS). These tests measure ‘Interrogative Suggestibility’ (IS), which is defined as “the extent to which, within a closed social interaction, people come to accept messages communicated during formal questioning, as a result of which their subsequent behavioural response is affected” (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986, p. 84). People who are high in IS are more susceptible to making false confessions under interrogative pressure, in a police or military interrogation scenario, for instance. However, as the authors point out, some offenders might be motivated to app... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=923703 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:00:28 +0100 923703 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1771 The August, September and October 2007 issues of Violence Against Women are now online. Follow the links to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Sign up for personalised ToC alerts here. Violence Against Women 13(8), August 2007 An Evaluation of the Coping Patterns of Rape Victims: Integration With a Schema-Based Information-Processing Model - Heather Littleton Patterns of Injuries: Accident or Abuse - Terry Allen, Shannon A. Novak, and Lawrence L. Bench An Integrative Feminist Model: The Evolving Feminist Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence - Beverly A. McPhail, Noel Bridget Busch, Shanti Kulkarni, and Gail Rice Intimate Partner Violence, Technology, and Stalking - Cynthia Southworth, Jerry Finn, Shawndell Dawson, Cynthia Fraser, and Sarah Tu... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=918887 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:55:13 +0100 918887 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1769 Recently advertised jobs, all in the UK: Research Fellow: Evaluation of the South-West Accommodation Gateway Evaluation, Sheffield Hallam University: The Hallam Centre for Community Justice requires a Research Fellow who will be required to help manage and support a range of projects in the Centre. In the first instance the postholder will have a research support role on an evaluation of the South-West Accommodation Gateway Evaluation. Closing Date 5 October Lecturer: Policing and Criminal Investigation, Department of Forensic & Investigative Science, University of Central Lancashire: The School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences … is seeking two new lecturers to join the team of the Centre for Policing and Criminal Investigation, to support the delivery of its new Foundation... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=916101 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:18:11 +0100 916101 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1766 The journal Personality and Individual Differences covers wide range of interesting material and there’s usually one or two articles in each issue that have relevance to forensic issues, either directly or in directly. Here’s a selection from recent and forthcoming issues. In the September issue, Gisli Gudjonsson and colleagues report that individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were not more suggestible in an interview situation than a control participants without ADHD. Gudjonsson et al. explain that ADHD participants didn’t yield to misinformation, leading questions and interrogative pressure, though they did give a disproportionate number of “don’t know” replies. In November’s issue, researchers from Carlton University i... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=915340 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:40:51 +0100 915340 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1762 The October 2007 issue of Psychology, Crime & Law 13(5) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Sign up for personalised ToC alerts here . Contents include: Alcohol as drug of choice; Is drug-assisted rape a misnomer? - Miranda Horvath; Jennifer Brown Appropriate treatment targets or products of a demanding environment? The relationship between aggression in a forensic psychiatric hospital with aggressive behaviour preceding admission and violent recidivism - Michael Daffern; Murray Ferguson; James Ogloff; Lindsay Thomson; Kevin Howells The measurement and influence of child sexual abuse supportive beliefs - Ruth Mann; Stephen Webster; Helen Wakeling; William Marshall The stability and generalizability of young ch... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=907026 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:55:03 +0100 907026 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1760 The September 2007 issue of Criminal Justice Studies 20(3) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Who Let the Dogs Out? Drug Dogs in Court - Jennifer Ashley; Simon Billinge; Craig Hemmens Female Suicide Bombers: Israeli Newspaper Reporting and the Public Construction of Social Reality - Revital Sela-Shayovitz Examining Criminology Majors’ and Non-Majors’ Attitudes Toward Inmate Programs, Services, and Amenities - Christopher Hensley; Mary Koscheski; Richard Tewksbury Desistance from Serious and Not So Serious Crime: A Comparison of Psychosocial Risk Factors - Elaine Gunnison; Paul Mazerolle Is Vigilantism on Your Mind? An Exploratory Study of Nuance and Contradiction in Student Death Pen... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=904520 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:55:03 +0100 904520 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1752 The July / August 2007 issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law 25(4) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: The function of punishment in the civil commitment of sexually violent predators - Kevin M. Carlsmith, John Monahan, Alison Evans Constructing insanity: jurors’ prototypes, attitudes, and legal decision-making - Jennifer Eno Louden, Jennifer L Skeem Facets of psychopathy, Axis II traits, and behavioral dysregulation among jail detainees - Richard Rogers, Mandy J. Jordan, Kimberly S. Harrison Improving forensic tribunal decisions: the role of the clinician - Shari A. McKee, Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice Determining dangerousness in sexually violent predator evaluations: cognitive-exp... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=900871 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:55:22 +0100 900871 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1758 The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research has announced a new Seminar Series for September-December 2007. Seminars take place at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. PDF flyer here, or more details on the SCCJR website. 24 September - Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley: ‘Governing through Crime and New Labour: Policy Transfer or a Common Culture of Control?’ 25 September - Jonathan Simon: ‘Governing through Crime: the Culture of Fear in America’ 4 October - Fergus McNeill, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow School of Social Work: ‘Hysteresis, Risk and Reconfiguration’ 17 October - Gabriele Marranci, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion, University of Aberdeen: ‘Identity, Religion and Ideology among Muslim Prisoners�... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=893247 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:00:05 +0100 893247 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1756 This report explores how the cultural ethos, behavioral norms, activities, and individual and group identities (subcultural phenomena), inherent to the electronic dance music … and the hip hop/rap nightclub scenes … impact the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and crime, with additional attention to victimization.” Building an Offender Reentry Program: A Guide for Law Enforcement (International Association of Chiefs of Police): “In an effort to determine the state of law enforcement’s participation in offender reentry initiatives, the International Association of Chiefs of Police partnered with OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance to comprehensively examine law enforcement’s role in offender reentry initiatives.” Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Ad... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=893248 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:00:00 +0100 893248 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1754 In the UK: Professor/Reader, Forensic Psychology, University of Gloucestershire: The University seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Chartered Forensic Psychologist to lead and further develop its planned taught MSc programme in Forensic Psychology, contribute to teaching on this and, where appropriate, on our well-established BPS accredited undergraduate psychology course. Closing date 28 September Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Forensic/Criminal Psychology, University of Gloucestershire: The post arises from a continued expansion in student numbers and an intention to further develop undergraduate/postgraduate provision and knowledge transfer activity in Psychology. Closing date 28 September Research Officer, Unit Costs Study For The National Offender Management Service, Universit... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=892371 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:53:31 +0100 892371 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1750 The latest issue of Police Practice and Research 8(4) is a special issue on Geographic Profiling in Policing edited by Ronald E. Wilson and Christopher D. Maxwell. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Research in Geographic Profiling: Remarks from the Guest Editors - Ronald E. Wilson; Christopher D. Maxwell Issues in the Geographic Profiling of Crime: Review and Commentary - Keith Harries; James LeBeau Clinical versus Actuarial Geographic Profiling Strategies: A Review of the Research - Craig Bennell; Paul J. Taylor; Brent Snook Improving Geographic Profiling through Commuter/Marauder Prediction - Derek Paulsen Geoforensic Analysis Revisited - The Application of Newton’s Geographic Profiling Method to Seri... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=889598 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:12:02 +0100 889598 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1748 Blacks who kill whites are most likely to be executed, according to new research highlighted in a press release from Ohio State University (31 July). Blacks convicted of killing whites are not only more likely than other killers to receive a death sentence – they are also more likely to actually be executed, a new study suggests. But the findings showed that African Americans on death row for killing nonwhites are less likely to be executed than other condemned prisoners. “Examining who survives on death row is important because less than 10 percent of those given the death sentence ever get executed,” said David Jacobs, co-author of the study and professor of sociology at Ohio State University. “The disparity in execution rates based on the race of victims suggests our justice sys... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=868197 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:00:28 +0100 868197 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1744 Some recent podcasts on topics relevant to psychology and crime: Violent Crime in America (Leonard Lopate show, 28 Aug) Many theories have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s – from tougher policing to a decline in the crack cocaine epidemic. But why in the last few years has this decrease in violent crime continued in some cities but not in others? Frank Zimring, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Andrew Karmen, Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, join Leonard to predict whether the crime decline of the 1990s will continue. Women Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia (Leonard Lopate show, 23 Aug) Approximately 2 million women from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and othe... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=865449 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:00:16 +0100 865449 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1746 from around the web and blogosphere: Reports from a review of the Virginia Tech massacre have been published (download via Docuticker) prompting much commentary, including this detailed post over at World of Psychology, where John Grohol discusses the report (pdf) detailing mass murderer Seung Hui Cho’s mental health history. Providentia draws our attention to a study presented at the recent APA convention which “indicated that sexual assault on women with physical disabilities tended to be more coercive and more physically severe than assaults on women with other types of problems”. GNIF Brain Blogger discusses research on the implications of war on mental health: A recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released articles dedicated to the... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=856760 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:00:46 +0100 856760 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1738 The latest issue of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal 8(3) is now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Sign up for personalised alerts here. Contents include: Policing, Politics, and Civil Rights: Analysis of the Policing of Protest against the 1999 Chinese President’s Visit to New Zealand - David Baker Community Policing in Post-September 11 America: A Comment on the Concept of Community-Oriented Counterterrorism - Ben Brown The International Civilian Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Democratization to Nation-Building - Dominique Wisler Defining Child Pornography: Law Enforcement Dilemmas in Investigations of Internet Child Pornography Possession - Melissa Wells; David Finkelhor; ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=856761 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:55:00 +0100 856761 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1742 Recently advertised jobs, all in the UK this week: Senior Professor, Violence Prevention, Research & Development, London Metropolitan University: We are seeking to appoint a senior research professor … Applicants must be able to demonstrate significant experience of major research in one of these chosen fields along with the ability to generate substantial external research income to foster further research. Closing date: 13 September Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex: Applicants are invited for the above fixed term position, reference , to assist on an ESRC funded study on the cognitive effects of current and former use of the drug ecstasy. Closing date: 17 September Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Community and Criminal justice, De Montfort University... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=853121 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:12:23 +0100 853121 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1740 I suspect that many readers will already be familiar with Intute, a web resource created by a UK academic network. The site collates a whole heap of links to some wonderful internet resources for education and research. It’s strong on social science, with plenty of links to criminal justice / forensic-related sites. For example, here are the latest additions, together with some of the Intute commentary: Justice Studies Association - a not-for-profit interdisciplinary association of practitioners and scholars concerned with issues of criminal, social, restorative, and economic justice. Crime and Justice Research Centre - based at Victoria University, New Zealand. Policy Centre for Victim Issues - part of the Department of Justice, Canada Restorative Justice Database - created and is m... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=852508 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:08:57 +0100 852508 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1736 The latest two issues of Journal of Experimental Criminology are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Journal of Experimental Criminology 3(2), June 2007 is a special issue on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in the Netherlands. Contents include: Experimental and quasi-experimental criminological research in the Netherlands - Gerben J. N. Bruinsma and David Weisburd Contextual determinants of juveniles’ willingness to report crimes: A vignette experiment - Heike Goudriaan and Paul Nieuwbeerta Implementing randomized experiments in criminal justice settings: An evaluation of multi-systemic therapy in the Netherlands - Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Dekovic, Peter H. van der Laan, Pier J. M. Prins and Sander van... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=852092 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:55:05 +0100 852092 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1734 The August 2007 issue of Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23(3) is a special issue on racial profiling. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Contents include: Profiles of Injustice: The Theory and Practice of Racial Profiling - Zina T. McGee Racial Profiling and the Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Federal Litigation, 1991 to 2006 - Shaun L. Gabbidon, Lakiesha N. Marzette, and Steven A. Peterson Police Discourse on Racial Profiling - Karen S. Glover Racial Profiling and Postmodern Society: Police Responsiveness, Image Maintenance, and the Left Flank of Police Legitimacy - Kirk Miller Legislative and Court Decisions That Promulgated Racial Profiling: A Sociohistorical Perspective - Larry D. Stokes Black Criminal Stereotype... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=845707 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:55:02 +0100 845707 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1724 This article discusses the phenomenon of youth violence from a psychology of gender perspective. Although other factors are discussed–including gun availability, violence-related media influence, family and caretaker factors, and effects of teasing and bullying–the intention is to highlight new thinking on the potential relationship between boys’ traditional masculine socialization experiences and violence. In this new perspective, traditional masculine socialization estranges and isolates many boys from their genuine inner lives and vital connections to others, which is theorized to heighten their risk of engaging in acts of violence. The authors identify school and community programs that may be helpful in counteracting damaging socialization experiences and supporting ... Psychology and Crime News news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841660 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:00:10 +0100 841660 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1732 The latest two issues of Victims & Offenders are now online. Follow the link to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles. Victims & Offenders 2(2), is a special issue on Early Intervention. Contents include: Early Prevention of Delinquency and Later Criminal Offending: An Introduction - Brandon C. Welsh; David P. Farrington Public Support for Early Intervention: Is Child Saving a “Habit of the Heart”? - Francis T. Cullen; Brenda A. Vose; Cheryl N. Lero Jonson; James D. Unnever Scientific Support for Early Prevention of Delinquency and Later Offending - Brandon C. Welsh; David P. Farrington Crime Prevention by the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program - Lawrence J. Schweinhart Promoting Social Development and Preventing Health and Behavi... 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