1 When Law and Psychology Meet.- A Technology for Controlling Behavior.- A Brief History.- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.- Establishing Facts.- Models of Rationality.- Attribution of Liability.- Effects of Punishment.- Punishment in the Real World.- One Prediction and Explanation of Criminal Behavior: Introduction.- 2 Long Term Prediction of Offending and Other Life Outcomes.- 3 Prediction of Criminal Behavior: Recent Developments in Research and Policy in the United States.- 4 The Prediction of Drunken Driving Offences.- 5 Juvenile Delinquency: Definitions, Character, and Theory.- 6 Situational Effects on the Decisions of Adolescent Offenders to Carry Out Delinquent Acts. Relations to Moral Reasoning, Moral Goals, and Personal Constructs.- 7 Crime Specialisation, Crime Displacement and Rational Choice Theory.- 8 Questioning Convicted Burglars: A Contribution to Crime Prevention.- Two Legal Thought, Attribution, and Sentencing: Introduction.- 9 Algebraic Schemes in Legal Thought and in Everyday Morality.- 10 Decision-Making and the Law: A View from the Grid.- 11 Decision Processes in the Jury Room.- 12 Perseverance in Courtroom Decisions.- 13 Attractiveness and Respectability of the Offender as Factors in the Evaluation of Criminal Cases.- Three Eyewitness Testimony: Introduction.- 14 The Perception of Social Events and Behavior Sequences.- 15 Remembering Social Events and Activities.- 16 Distortions in Eyewitness Memory from Postevent Information.- 17 Collaborative Testimony by Police Officers: A Psycho-legal Issue.- 18 Behavioral Correlates of Statement Credibility: Theories, Paradigms, and Results.- 19 Assessing Credibility of Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Polygraph Examinations and Statement Analysis.- 20 Verbal and Visual Processes in Person Identification.- Four Correctional Treatment: Clinical and Organizational Aspects: Introduction.- 21 Evaluation Research on Correctional Treatment in West Germany: A Meta-analysis.- 22 Treatment of Young Remand Prisoners: Problems and Results of a Research Project.- 23 Influencing Juvenile Offenders by Way of Alternative Sanctions in Community Settings.- 24 Relations Between General Attitudes and Personality Traits of Prison Officers and Some Specific Attitudes Towards Prisoners.- 25 Psychology in Prison: Role Assessment and Testing of an Organizational Model.- Author Index.

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