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Using forensic linguistics in the criminal justice systemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion Group Two books by John Olsson: Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics Forensic Linguistics: Second Edition
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 28, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Forensic linguistics Source Type: info

Conference: Forensic Science for the 21st Century: The National Academy of Sciences Report and BeyondEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Ac...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - January 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: info

Deception blog round-up of recent researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - January 1, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Deception Source Type: info

Tackling Football Hooliganism: A Quantitative Study of Public Order, Policing and Crowd PsychologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 st...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - November 8, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Sport violence and hooliganism Source Type: info

Free access to Sage journals gives you a chance to read all about science and pseudoscience in policingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 b...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - October 5, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Academia Deception Disputed convictions Interviewing Investigations Journals and journal articles PTSD Policing Witness testimony Source Type: info

The Anthropology of Crime and CriminalizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 e...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - October 2, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Academia Journals and journal articles Source Type: info

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology: Special Issue on Criminal ProfilingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - September 28, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Investigations Profiling Source Type: info

Special issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology on eyewitness researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Munst...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - September 6, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Tables of contents Witness testimony Witnesses Source Type: info

Recently advertised academic positionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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, U...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 31, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Seminar: Obtaining evidence from vulnerable witnessesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - August 13, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Academia Conferences Witnesses Source Type: info

Why English youths are more violent than Swedish youthsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 9, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Aggression Juvenile offending Organised crime Source Type: info

New issue: Psychology, Crime & LawEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 7, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Courtroom Deception Juvenile offending Tables of contents Source Type: info

Global Uncertainties: Security for All in a Changing World ProgrammeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 communi...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 5, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Academia Source Type: info

Free access to Psychology and Psychiatry Journals from SageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - August 4, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Journals and journal articles Web resources Source Type: info

Recently advertised academic positionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Prin...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 3, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

British Psychological Society guidelines on memoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 availa...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - August 2, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Witness testimony Witnesses Source Type: info

Bees join hunt for serial killers*Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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&...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 30, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Geographical profiling Serial and mass killing Source Type: info

Research reports round-upEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 t...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 27, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Child abuse Community policing Crime Prevention Investigations Juvenile offending Prison Serial and mass killing Victims and treatment Witnesses Source Type: info

The influence of Muslim headgear and induced affect on aggressive responses in the shooter bias paradigmEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 in...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 22, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Guns Hate crime Source Type: info

Recently advertised academic positionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - July 19, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Policing 2(2): special edition on Crime ScienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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. A...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 19, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Crime Prevention Criminal behaviour Geographical profiling Policing Tables of contents Source Type: info

Power, Anger, and Sadistic Rapists and other articles in the latest issue of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative CriminologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 behaviou...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 13, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Profiling Rape Sexual offences Source Type: info

Line-ups, eyewitness memory and camera perspective bias in videotaped confessionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - July 7, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Confessions Interviewing Witness testimony Witnesses Source Type: info

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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 teac...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - July 5, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

New issue: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry International Journal of Law and PsychiatryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - June 29, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Aggression Criminal behaviour Juvenile offending Tables of contents Source Type: info

An Investigation of Psychopathic Features Among Delinquent GirlsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 vi...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - June 28, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Criminal behaviour Juvenile offending Source Type: info

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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, Unive...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - June 23, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

The limited role of neuroimaging in determining criminal liabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 liabilit...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - June 22, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Criminal behaviour Source Type: info

Videoconferencing and the lawEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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, J...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - June 13, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Journals and journal articles Source Type: info

Announcing a new Centre for Forensic LinguisticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 qu...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - May 17, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Forensic linguistics Source Type: info

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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 Univers...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - May 5, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Criminal Justice and Behavior: Special issue on child sexual abuse and the churchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 You...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - April 20, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Child abuse Source Type: info

Did a psychological profile go too far?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ra...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - April 11, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Disputed convictions Profiling Source Type: info

A Confederate South effect in homicide rates, and other interesting articles from the Social Science JournalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 W...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - April 1, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Capital punishment Hate crime Homicide Source Type: info

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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 modul...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - April 1, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Neurolaw multimediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - March 30, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Academia Source Type: info

Videos and podcastsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - March 17, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Mental health Prison Organised crime Gangs Rehabilitation Drugs Source Type: info

Forthcoming conference on interviewing and deceptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - March 14, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Deception Conferences Interviewing Source Type: info

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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 qu...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - March 8, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Conference this Saturday at HarvardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - March 6, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Conferences Source Type: info

Violence on Campus: Prediction, Prevention and ResponseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 dire...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 24, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Criminal behaviour Conferences School shootings Source Type: info

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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 Crim...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 23, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

Exploring homicide in an international contextEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 16, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Journals and journal articles Homicide Source Type: info

Call for papers: 10th Conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual OffendersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 preventi...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 13, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Calls for papers Source Type: info

Three articles of forensic interest in Personality and Individual DifferencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 - February 8, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Journals and journal articles Aggression Source Type: info

Sexual Victimization in Prisons: Moving Toward EliminationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 E...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 5, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Prison Source Type: info

Call for papers: Feminist CriminologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 3, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Calls for papers Source Type: info

Recently advertised academic positionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Criminolog...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - February 1, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Jobs Source Type: info

The type of interrogation likely to lead to false confessionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 techni...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - January 30, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Confessions Source Type: info

Social influences and the effects of misinformationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 p...
Source: Psychology and Crime News - January 26, 2008 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: EmmaB Tags: Witnesses Journals and journal articles Source Type: info